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Agriculture: WAEC Economics Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in Agriculture

Our summary: How agriculture is organised, why it matters to the national economy, and its problems and policies.

  • Structure (e.g. food crops, export crops, livestock, fisheries)
  • Systems of agriculture (peasant, commercial, co-operative and state farming)
  • Importance of agriculture to the national economy
  • Marketing of agricultural products (commodity boards)
  • Agricultural policies (minimum agricultural prices)
  • Problems of agriculture and remedies

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WAEC (WASSCE) Economics questions on Agriculture

  1. WAEC 2024What will be the likely effect if agriculture is fully mechanized in West Africa?
  2. WAEC 2024The low productivity per worker in agriculture experienced in West African countries is due to
  3. WAEC 2023Many workers are employed in the agricultural sector of developing countries because
  4. WAEC 2021Government can increase farmers' incomes by …
  5. WAEC 2020Which of the following problem has the least effect on agricultural productivity in West Africa?
  6. WAEC 2019The major employer of labour in developing countries is the
  7. WAEC 2019Natural resources that are renewable are found in the
  8. WAEC 2019Agricultural productivity may be increased if
  9. WAEC 2019Supply of agricultural products is likely to be elastic in the
  10. WAEC 2019In most developing countries, a large percentage of the labour force is engaged in
  11. WAEC 2018which of the following factors is not a reason for farmer's unstable incomes
  12. WAEC 2018the poorer the country, the larger the percentage of labour force engaged in?
  13. WAEC 2017The system of agriculture which involves the cultivation of crops and rearing of animals for family consumption only is termed?
  14. WAEC 2016Which of the following will encourage capital intensive farming
  15. WAEC 2015one reason for low agrictural productivity in most west African countries is that?

Years with Agriculture questions in DeeepSolve's question bank

From the past questions DeeepSolve holds, not a count of everything the exam body has set.

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  • 2015