MEANING ANDTYPES OF AGRICULTURE

'Ager' and 'cultura' are latin words meaning

• Cultivation of land

• rearing of farm animals.

• rearing of fish

• Keeping of pets

Examples of livestock include the following EXCEPT

• Peacock

• Cattle

• Pig

• Turkey

The 2 types of agriculture are

• aquaculture and oceanography

• Horticulture and Sericulture

• Subsistence and commercial

• Household and nationwide

When complicated machines and equipment like tractors, harrows, ploughs, cultivators, milking machines, balers etc are used for production, it is called

• Full agriculture

• Mechanized agriculture

• Integrated agriculture

• Peasant agriculture

Small piece of land, simple implements, few crops planted, small amount of money involved, low level of education etc are characteristics of .

• Commercial agriculture

• Subsistence agriculture

• Forestry

• sustainable agriculture

Special skills and education are needed to operate

• Watering can

• Secateurs

• Farm equipment and machines

• Long handle sickle.

Agriculture is BEST defined as the production of

• Flowers and tree crops.

• Food crops and cash crops

• Fishes and aquatic animals.

• Crops and farm animals.

Government support is necessary for farmers in the provision of farm_________ for profitable production.

• inputs

• Outputs

• Parasites

• Explorer

Large quantities of industrial raw materials can be made available by increased investment in

• Subsistence agriculture

• Commercial agriculture

• Integrated agriculture

• Exotic agriculture

The process of bringing animals under man's control is known as

• domestication

• hatching

• ranching

• crossing