Neco Model Questions Vol1 2020 Agricultural Science Question 12
Practice objective / multiple choice question 12 from the 2020 Neco Model Questions Vol1 Agricultural Science examination.
A tomato farmer cultivates 10 ha with 1 000 plants per ha. Initially 20 % of the plants are infected with a disease that reduces each infected plant's yield by 0.05 kg compared with a healthy plant that yields 0.20 kg. The farmer can apply a fungicide costing ₦150 per ha; the treatment eliminates 60 % of the infected plants, and the remaining infected plants are destroyed. The market price of tomatoes is ₦200 per kg and the production cost (excluding fungicide) is ₦30 per kg. Determine the change in net profit (in ₦) if the farmer uses the fungicide compared with doing nothing.
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This is Neco Model Questions Vol1 2020 Agricultural Science Question 12. It is one of the objective questions from the 2020 Neco Model Questions Vol1 Agricultural Science examination.
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