THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA, PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

MBINGA DISTRICT COUNCIL

FORM IV DISTRICT PRE MOCK EXAMINATIONS MARCH 2026

 034 AGRICULTURE 

Time: 3:00 HOURS Wednesday 25^th March 2026 P.m.

INSTRUCTIONS 

1. This paper consists of Section A, B and C with a total of eleven (11) questions.
2. Section A carries fifteen (15) marks, Section B carries fifty-five (55) marks and Section C carries thirty (30) marks.
3. Answer ALL questions from section A and B and two questions from section C.
4. All communication devices and unauthorized materials are not allowed in the examination room.

SECTION A (15 Marks)

1) Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives to complete the following sentences.

i. In farm management the agricultural farm is considered as. 

1. Production unit with various enterprises 
2. production unit with fewer enterprises 
3. Unit of crop cultivation and raising livestock 
4. Agricultural activities 
5. Portion of land on which a particular farmer carries out agricultural activities for the purpose of getting profit

ii. Factors of production are resources required for production process which include 

1. Labour,land, farmer,entrepreneurship 
2. Land labour, entrepreneurship, capital 
3. Harvested crops, livestock products 
4. Land, labour, Capita, livestock products 
5. Labour, capital, wages, management 

iii. Soil which is able to supply the plants with their nutritional requirements adequately is said to be 

1. Infertile soil 
2. Arable soil 
3. Fertile soil 
4. Well drained soil 
5. Deficient in plant nutrient 

iv. The best term to describe the process that adds value to an agricultural produce by changing in from the raw to finished form is 

1. Form utility 
2. Place utility 
3. Possession utility 
4. Time utility

v. A situation where buyers and sellers are in sufficient contact with each other for the exchange of goods and services is called 

1. Supply and demand 
2. Marketing 
3. A market 
4. A market place

vi. A piece of land that is prepared for planting is referred to as 

1. Planting land 
2. Fertile land 
3. Suitable land 
4. Seedbed 
5. Soil clods

vii. Rolling has the following advantages except 

1. Creating a smooth and firm seedbed 
2. Enabling the soil to retain moisture for a long period 
3. Promoting faster and uniform germination of the crops with very small seeds 
4. Making harvesting of tuber crops and pods of groundnuts easier
5. Protecting the top soil layer and very small seeds from being carried away by wind

viii. The practice of providing support to vine crops using a line held by posts at a definite spacing is referred to as 

1. Staking 
2. Trellising 
3. Propping 
4. Pruning 
5. Pinching out

ix. Factors of production are very important because they 

1. Contribute directly towards the quality and quantity of output 
2. Contribute indirectly towards the quality and quantity of output 
3. Contribute in production of inputs 
4. Usually found in nature as they are not man made 
5. Involved in production of goods and services in order to make economic profit

x. Death of host cells, tissues and organs induced by pathogens is referred to as 

1. Hypoplasis 
2. Discoloration 
3. Necrosis 
4. Wilting 
5. Gummosis

2) Match each statement from part A with the corresponding branches of agriculture in part B

SECTION B (55 Marks)

3) Briefly explain five importance of farm mechanisation

4) State five ways in which a farmer can increase land value in the farming enterprise.

5) Not all fertile soil are productives. Use five points to support the above statement

6) Most pastoralists in Manyara region keeps their cattles outside the house in Kraal that have no roof and other qualities of livestock housing structures. As an extension offices advice these pastoralists keeping animals in door by citing five purposes of keeping animals in a house.

7) List five major characteristics of land use systems

8) Briefly explain factors affecting the length of each marketing channel

SECTION C (15Marks)

Answer Only Two(2) Questions

9) Describe the objectives of Tanzania agricultural sector.

10) Besides its advantages, agroforestry has its own limitations. Explain any five of them

11) (a) what is the meaning of the term irrigation as used in maintenance of soil water for crop production

(b) briefly explain four types of irrigation

(c) list down two benefits each type of irrigation and challenges in each type of irrigation above.

PRESIDENT’S OFFICE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

FORM IV TAHOSSA NORTHWESTERN ZONE EXAMINATION

034/1 AGRICULTURE 1

Time: 3:00 Hours AUGUST 2025

Instructions

1. This paper consists of sections A, B, and C with a total of eleven (11) questions.
2. Answer all questions in section A and B and TWO (2) questions from section C.
3. Section A carry sixteen (16) marks, section B carries fifty (54) marks and section C carry thirty (30) marks.
4. All answers must be written in the answer booklet (s) provided
5. Cellular phones and any unauthorized materials are not allowed in the examination room.
6. Write your Examination Number on every page of your answer booklet(s).

SECTION A (16 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section.

1. For each of the items (i) – (x), choose the correct answer from among the given alternatives and write its letter beside the item number in the answer booklet provided. 

(i) Growing of crops or keeping of livestock under a limited area of land is called?

1. Extensive farming 
2. Intensive farming
3. Semi-intensive farming
4. Large scale farming

(ii) What is the name given to the price when a trader buys an agricultural produce at a site of production?

1. Farmgate prices.
2. Shadow prices.
3. Retail prices.
4. Price at factor cost.
5. Market prices.

(iii)Why agriculture is regarded as a business? 

1. It involves the use of money.
2. It involves application of knowledge learned through systematic observation, experimentation and analysis.
3. It involves the application of human skills.
4. When it is consciously done with the goal of creating profit.
5. It involves the use of middlemen, retailers and wholesalers.

(iv) Which one is the name given to the pesticide that are circulated to the all parts of the pest’s body once ingested a sprayed or dressed part of the plant

1. Fumigants.
2. Systemic poison.
3. Stomach poison.
4. Contact poison.
5. Suffocants

(v) Why do Nitrogen fertilizers not recommend in production of root crops such as sweet potato?

1. They inhibit the elongation of the trunk of the crop
2. They lead to formation of many short root tubers
3. They enhance formation of more leaves and fewer tubers 
4. They lead to scorching of the roots and mottling of leaves
5. They lead to root rot diseases.

(vi) Which husbandry practice in sheep facilitates easier tupping?

1. Docking
2. Crutching
3. Radding
4. Ringing
5. Shearing

1. (2) and (5)
2. (1) and (3)
3. (4) and (3)
4. (1) ND (2)
5. (1), (2) and (4)

(vii) There are number of soil erosion. The one which involve the uniform removal of soil in thin layers caused by wind or flowing surface water which detaches and transports sheets of top soil over a wide area is called?

1. Overland flow erosion. 
2. Rill erosion. 
3. Splash erosion.
4. Gulley erosion.
5. Mass flow.

(viii) What is the name given to a practice of applying fertilizer when the crop is already established on a field?

1. Basal dressing 
2. Post planting 
3. Top dressing
4. Seed dressing fertilizing 
5. Over sawing dressing

(ix) What is a name given to the mass of bees in motion to a new colony?

1. Nuptial 
2. Swarm 
3. Apiary
4. Swarming
5. Wriggle dance

(x) Which of the following terms describes the practices of increasing the amount of food in sow or gilt few days before mating?

1. Drying off 
2. Flushing 
3. Farrowing
4. Creep feeding
5. Weaning

2. Match the description of tool in List A with their corresponding names in List B by writing the letter of correct response beside the item number in the answer booklet provided.

SECTION B (70 Marks)

3. (a) Why mechanization is advised in agriculture now days? (5 marks) 

(b) Account for four good management of a draught animal. (4 marks)

4. (a) If the original cost of the tractor was Tsh. 22,000,000 and it is expected to last for 20 years before writing off when its value will be 2,000,000. By using the straight- line method, calculate the annual depreciation of the tractor. (5 marks)

(b) Account for four factors that may cause a change in demand of agricultural produce (4 marks)

5. (a) Briefly describe two ways of classifying pigs. (4 marks) 

(b) The performance of pork industry in Tanzania is not good enough compared to beef production. Briefly explain five limiting factors leading to poor performance of pig industry in Tanzania. (5 marks)

6. (a) Briefly explain the term sowing depth as it is applied in crop production (1 marks)

(b) Imagine you are working as an extension officer in a village where farmers sow seeds with as whatever depth as they like, and hence they experience fewer crop populations after seed emergence. Explain to these farmers on four factors that determine the sowing depth of a crop so as to obtain optimum crop population. (8 marks)

7. (a) You are appointed as an extension of officer in a certain village where arable land is located in a wetland area. Suggest any five control measures that may be adopted by farmers to secure that arable land for crop production. (05 marks) 

(b) Briefly describe four importance of soil water in agriculture (04 Marks) 

8. A fertility of the soil in a particular institute farm was very low following soil analysis. Examine the five possible causes of that condition of the soil in that institute’s farm. (09 marks) 

SECTION C (30 MARKS)

Answer two (2) questions from this section

9.  Small scale farmers have been engaging in agricultural activities for a long time in our country. Still the qualities and quantity of the yield produce does not reflect their efforts. Examine problems that hindering the success in agricultural production of small scale farmers in Tanzania.  (15 marks)

10.  Livestock breeding can be done using natural breeding or alternatively, it can be done by artificial insemination. Explain four advantages and three problems of artificial

insemination over natural breeding (15 marks)

11.  In a certain village farmer had an ideology that weeds are completely harmful and unbeneficial in agricultural production. Imagine you are working as an extension officer in that village, how you would convince them that weeds are not completely harmful and unbenefial in agricultural production. Give six points in your explanation. (15 marks)

PRESIDENT’S OFFICE  REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 

DAR ES SALAAM CITY SECONDARY SCHOOLS EXAMINATION ASSESSMENT 

FORM FOUR PRE - MOCK EXAMINATIONS

034/1 AGRICULTURE 1

(For Both School and Private Candidates)

Time: 3:00 Hours  Year: 2025

Instructions

1. This paper consists of sections A, B and C with a total of Eleven (11) questions.
2. Answer all questions in section A and B and two (2) questions from section C.
3. Section A carries sixteen (16) marks, section B carries fifty four (54) marks and section C carries thirty (30) marks.
4. All writings must be in blue or black ink.
5. All communication devices and any unauthorized materials are not allowed in the examination room.
6. Write your Examination Number on every page of your answer sheet (s).

SECTION A (16 Marks) 

Answer all questions in this section

1. For each of the items (i) – (x) choose the correct answer from the given alternatives and write its letter beside the item number in the answer sheet(s) provided.

(i) What is the price of management as applied in production, however, loss may sometimes occur unpredictably?

1. Interest 
2. Wages 
3. Rent 
4. Capital 
5. Profit

(ii) Why animals such as donkeys ,oxen and horses have been used more as a source of farm power than others?

1. They require adequate grazing land
2. Their working speed is very high
3. They are generally hard, strong and easy to feed
4. They can work in
5. They can easily be trained to become oxen for farm work.

(iii) Why agriculture is regard as an art?

1. It companies several branches of study
2. It integrates several subjects
3. It involves crop cultivation and rearing of livestock
4. It involves application of skills which can be manipulated
5. It uses scientific principles

(iv) Crop pests control method has different mechanism action, which method is used to control pest by breaking their life circle.

1. Biological method 
2. Cultural method 
3. Mechanical Method
4. Chemical Method 
5. Physical Method

(v) What might be the problem of land being planted without tillage operations?

1. Loss of soil fertility 
2. Growth of weeds 
3. Outbreak of diseases
4. Occurrence of soil erosion
5. Crops mature early

(vi) What should be done to collect acidic soil so that it become suitable for growing agricultural crops and microbial activities

1. Acidification 
2. Salinization 
3. Alkalinization
4. liming 
5. Conversion

(vii) The following are the importance of physical properties of the soil texture except.

1. Influence soil aeration 
2. Influence water movement 
3. Affect the ability of soil to hold nutrient.
4. Influence root penetration
5. Influence microbial activity

(viii) If a farmer think of effective utilization of soil nutrients and control system would be most appropriate for the purpose?

1. Crop rotation 
2. Relay cropping 
3. Monoculture
4. Intercropping 
5. Mixed Cropping

(ix) Why minimum tillage is practiced in soil conservation system?

1. It doesn’t destroy soil structure
2. It increase porous surface
3. It ensure least soil compaction
4. It enables the soil to retain moisture for a long time

1. 1and 4
2. 1 and 3 
3. 3 and 4
4. 2 and 3 
5. 2 and 3

(x) What do we call the action of goat to eat leaves of tree and shrubs?

1. Feeding 
2. Eating 
3. Browsing 
4. Muzzling 
5. Tethering

2. Match the examples of uncertainties in agriculture production in list A with the corresponding types of uncertainties in production in list B by writing the letter of the correct response in the table provided

SECTION B (54 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section

3. Risk is unknown situation that has measurable like hoods of happening due to implementation of production plans on the farm .

(a)Briefly Explain four (4) types of risk that affect farming business. 

(b) Suggest three methods of overcoming the effect of risk in farming

4. Planning in livestock involves setting objectives and determines a cause of action for achieving those objectives.

1. Evaluate four importance of planning.
2. Briefly explain three consequence of poorly planning livestock enterprises.

5. A vice is undesirable or unnatural habit of an animal such as egg eating.

1. Discuss five (5) control measure of both cannibalism and feather peaking.
2. Suggest four (4) preventive measures against egg eating.

6. Growing different crops in the same piece of land at different season should be done by observing six principles. Briefly describe each of the principles by indicating its importance.

7. Understanding land use pattern has many benefits. Discuss five (5) major and use pattern in Tanzania.

8. Agriculture is one of the science subject taught in Tanzania secondary schools. Using six points (subjects), explain how the knowledge of other subjects can be use in agriculture.

SECTION C (30 Marks)

Answer only two (2) questions from this section

9. Farm records and accounts are stored data and information about activities and financial transaction within the farm. Discuss two (2) types of farm records and evaluate six (6) importance of keeping records

10. Discuss eight (8) basic functions of agricultural marketing giving two advantages of each.

11. Account for any eight (8) points on how crop pest be controlled in the field using cultural control measure.

PRESIDENT’S OFFICE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, KIBAHA DISTRICT COUNCIL

DISTRICT FORM FOUR MOCK EXAMINATION

AGRICULTURE 1

Instructions 

1. This paper consists of sectioons A, B and C with a total of eleven (11) questions.
2. Answer all questions in section A and B and two (2) questions in section C 
3. All answers must be in black or blue pen.
4. Write your Examination Number on every page of your answer booklet(s).

SECTION A (16 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section.

1. For each of the items (i)- (x), choose the correct answer from the given alternatives and write it's letter beside the item number in the answer booklet provided. (10 marks) 

i) What should be done to correct acidic soil so that it become suitable for growing agricultural crops and microbial activities?

1. Liming
2. Salinization
3. Alkalization
4. Acidification
5. Conversion.

ii).The practice of growing highly valued crops such as fruits, vegetables, flower and vines is called;

1. A.Floriculture
2. Olericulture
3. C.Horticulture
4. D.Pomology
5. Viticulture

iii).Wheat, barley, rice and oarts are classified as;

1. A.legumes
2. Pulse
3. Cereal crops
4. Beverage crops
5. Fibre crops.

iv).The practice of rearing livestock and at the same time growing some crops in the same piece of land is called;

1. Mixed cropping
2. Mixed farming
3. C.Monocropping
4. D.Crop rotation
5. E.Interplanting .

v).a plough, disc harrow, sprayers and ridgers are example of

1. A.Tools
2. B.An implement
3. A machine
4. D.Tractor
5. Combined harvesters.

vi).The type of saw used for cutting or sowing sharp curve in wood work is called.....

1. A.Coping saw
2. B.rip saw
3. Cross cut saw
4. tenon saw
5. Hack saw.

vii). The practice of providing support to sterms of certain crop plant so as to prevent them from falling or breakage is called....

1. propping
2. staking
3. trellising
4. pruning
5. Earthing up.

viii).The process of changing the form of crop produce from raw form to usefull product is refered to as—

1. Processing
2. Transporting.
3. Storage
4. grading and sorting
5. Marketing.

ix).The expected rewards for entrepreneurship for its contribution to the production process is –

1. A.Loss
2. Economic growth
3. C.Capital
4. Profit
5. Wages.

x).A soil which is able to supply a plants with their nutritional requirements adequately is said to be-

1. Infertile soil
2. Arable soil
3. C.Well drained soil.
4. Fertile soil
5. Wet soil.

2. Match the uses of different livestock production tools in List A with the corresponding types of livestock tools in List B by writing the letter of correct response beside the item number in answer booklet provided.

SECTION B (54 marks)

Answer all questions in this section.

3. Give three (03) factors which characterize intensive farming (09 marks)

4. State three (03) ways by which wind affect the growth of crops (09 marks)

5.a) Before initiating livestock enterprise of your choice it is better to select a suitable livestock to keep. What do you think are basic consideration in selecting a suitable livestock type to rear in your community.(5 Marks). 

b) Financial planning of livestock enterprise should always look on the production cost for certain livestock of your choice. In two points, describe production cost to be considered in financial planning for newly Dairy cattle in your farm.(4marks).

6 In agricultural day to day activities soil is essential. List six characteristics of fertile soil.

7.a) Explain briefly the concept of weathering as it is used in soil forming process.(4 marks) 

b). In the process of forming the soil, there are five factors that influence it. Explain briefly five factors which influence the named process. (5marks).

8 Identify the farm records below and question

1. Identify the type of farm record (03 marks)
2. State two different information that should be entered in remark column (03 marks)
3. State four uses of farm record (03 marks)

SECTION C: (30 marks)

Answer two (2) questions in this section.

9. Your village would like to establish an apiary or meliponary. If you're the only knowledgeable person about the practice in this village, advise in six points the factors to consider when they want to locate the site for the named project (15 marks).

10. Suppose you receive twenty Day old chicks (Layers) from nearby farm. As an expert in Agriculture, explain six management requirements from Day old chick (Doc to the 28th day inorder to get good layers for egg production in your farm.( 15marks)

11. "In subsistence farming, nearly all crops and livestock raised are used to sustain the life of farmer and his/ her family". By using six points explain the reality of this statement. (15 Marks)