Farm Management Tasks & Natural Resources is one of 9 topics in the Grade 10 Agricultural Management Practices CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. Which farm management task means deciding in advance what will be produced, how much, and by what methods?
Planning
Control
Motivation
Coordination
Answer: Planning — Planning is the starting point of farm management: deciding in advance what will be produced, how much, and by what methods.
Easy
2. What does the farm management task of "organising" involve?
Arranging the farm's resources, people and activities into a workable structure so the plan can be carried out
Writing the annual financial statements only
Selling farm produce at market
Measuring rainfall on the farm
Answer: Arranging the farm's resources, people and activities into a workable structure so the plan can be carried out — Organising means arranging the farm's resources, people and activities into a workable structure so that the plan can actually be carried out.
Medium
3. Name the farm management task that means monitoring whether actual activities and results match the plan, and correcting course when they do not.
Answer: control — Control is the task of monitoring whether actual farm activities and results are matching the plan, and stepping in to correct course when they are not.
