Neco Model Questions Vol1 2019 Agricultural Science Question 49
Practice objective / multiple choice question 49 from the 2019 Neco Model Questions Vol1 Agricultural Science examination.
A tomato farmer cultivates 3\,ha with 10\,000 plants per hectare. Each plant yields 5\,kg of tomatoes at harvest. The market price is \u20a980 per kg. A whitefly infestation causes a loss of 0.001\% of yield per adult whitefly per plant each week. The whitefly population grows at 10\% per week if untreated. Initially there are 2 adult whiteflies per plant. A pesticide application costs \u20a9150 per hectare and reduces the population by 80\% instantly. Determine after how many weeks it becomes economically justified to apply the pesticide (i.e., when the cumulative loss would exceed the pesticide cost).
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This is Neco Model Questions Vol1 2019 Agricultural Science Question 49. It is one of the objective questions from the 2019 Neco Model Questions Vol1 Agricultural Science examination.
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