UI Post-UTME Geography 2018 (Model questions) Question 9

Question 9

Agriculture, Fishing and Lumbering

Mixed farming implies

  1. A.growing crops and rearing animals on a given land area
  2. B.Keeping poultry and rearing pigs on one and the same farm
  3. C.Growing grains and root crops on the same pieces of land
  4. D.Mixed cultivation of wheat, barley, and oats
  5. E.Intercropping of yam, cassava and maize
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: A (growing crops and rearing animals on a given land area)

Explanation

Mixed farming combines crop growing and livestock rearing on the same farm.