Summary

• Description:

  The PDF document comprises CEKENAS Agriculture Paper 1 2026 Pre-Mock Exam with Marking Scheme. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  It was a CEKENAS Form 4 Agriculture Paper 1 joint evaluation examination testing core competencies in crop production, soil fertility management, and agricultural economics. This resource is ideal for revision to help students boost their KCSE grades, available for convenient PDF download with separate marking scheme and answers.

  • Month Administered: March/April 2026
  • Duration: 2 Hours
  • Total Marks: 90 Marks
  • Number of Questions: 25 (Questions 1–25)
  • Structure: Section A (30 marks, Questions 1–18), Section B (20 marks, Questions 19–22), and Section C (40 marks, choice of two questions from 23–25).

  It covers the following topics:

  • Section A
    • Crop production concepts (Pomoculture and Olericulture)
    • Livestock production branches
    • Farming systems (Shifting cultivation applicability)
    • Farm records management (Breeding records and feeding records)
    • Agricultural economics (Opportunity cost conditions)
    • Soil fertility and fertilizers (Organic manure in acidic soils, well-rotten compost indicators, green manure limitations, liming benefits)
    • Plant nutrition (Calcium deficiency symptoms in maize, SSP fertilizer calculation)
    • Soil erosion control and moisture conservation (Erosion factors, mulching mechanisms, moisture harnessing practices)
    • Crop management practices (Harvesting stage determinants, weeding precautions in beans, coffee pruning)
  • Section B
    • Soil capillarity and drainage experimental setup
    • Nursery practices and vegetative propagation (Air layering / Marcotting procedure)
    • Crop pathology (Cigar end rot in bananas and control measures)
    • Forage conservation (Silo structures, silage making, and maintaining anaerobic conditions)
  • Section C
    • Agricultural pollution (Activities causing water pollution)
    • Crop rotation planning and design factors
    • Land tenure systems (Disadvantages of communal land tenure)
    • Land preparation and crop production (Timely seedbed preparation, carrot production)
    • Weed management (Cultural weed control methods in cereals)
    • Biotic factors influencing agricultural production
    • Crop propagation (Advantages of seed propagation)
    • Disease control strategies (Cultural disease control methods)
• File Size:

  1.39 MB
• Length:

  8 pages
• Category:

  Mock Past Papers
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  AGRICULTURE
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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