Syllabus content and objectives
Official WAEC Agricultural Science outline · Section G: Crop Protection
Content
a. Meaning of disease
Objective
Candidates should be able to define disease
Content
b. General effects of diseases on crop production
Objective
Candidates should be able to state the general effects of diseases on crop production
Content
c. Disease: causal organism, economic importance, mode of transmission, symptoms, prevention and control measures of the diseases of: (i) cereals – smut, rice blast, leaf rust etc; (ii) legumes – cercospora leaf spot, rosette etc; (iii) beverages – cocoa blackpod, swollen shoot, coffee leaf rust etc; (iv) tubers – cassava mosaic, bacterial leaf blight etc; (v) fruits – citrus gummosis, dieback etc; (vi) fibre – black arm/bacterial blight of cotton etc; (vii) vegetables – root knot of tomato or okro, damping off, onion twister etc; (viii) stored produce – mould etc.
Objective
Candidates should be able to describe diseases of crops, covering at least two fungal, two viral, two bacterial and one nematode disease of the crops chosen from the list
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