MARKING KEY

1. Materials: - plastic bag

- Substance (any example)
- Strings
- Razor blade / knife
- Small pots or polythene tubes.
Procedure
- Water the plant before collect the leaf to ensure high cell turgidity.
- Select a healthy, mature succulent (juicy) leaf from the parent plant.
- Remove the petiole (leafstalk) with a sharp knife.
- Cut the leaf across several of the larger veins with a sharp sterilized knife/ scissors.
- Pit the leaf flat, bottom-side-down, to the surface of soil using thorns or toothpicks to
ensure the leaf stay contact with the moist at all times.
- Place the pot with the cutting into a transparent plastic bag.
- Water the cutting while in the bag.
- Remove the cutting from the bag when you see new leaves or shoots beginning to
form.
- When the each of the shoots has two sets of leaves, separate the new shoots by cutting
the leaf a part with a knife.
- Transport each of the new plants into separate small pots / polythene tube filled with
soil.
2.
a. M = Urea
N =23:21:0 + 4s

b. Dollop method, banding

c. Through absorption by the plant roots.
d. Mr. Gama applied four bags of fertilizers
50 X4 X 23
100

200 X 23 = 46Kg
100
3. X = dry maize, Y= Fresh cassava
a. X= Carbohydrates

Y= Carbohydrates

b. They can help by provide energy which are used in various processes in body of
livestock.
 c. X = weevils, rates
Y= weevils, rates
d. Scrash out the outer parts then cut it into pieces and dry them on the sun.
e. Both of them provide carbohydrates which are used when it is converted into energy
required for the body activities.

4.
a. Drawing of onion

b. The specimen has a lot of moisture which help the specimen to stay in dormancy state
for a long time without damaged.
c. N
- They are bulky
- They cannot be stored for long period of time.
- They promote transferring of pests and diseases.