Food Production GCSE

What is commercial farming?

• Where plant and livestock production is practiced with the intention of selling the products on the market.

• The practice of growing crops and raising livestock sufficient only for one's own use

• Farming for crops

Choose 3 inputs of farming

• Sowing, pesticides, labour

• Fertiliser, sowing, energy

• Labour, machinery, energy

What is a by-product?

• Product which is the waste material from farming

• Secondary product made in the production or synthesis of something else

• A product that is bought from farming system

Organic farming is .....

• farming that doesn't use manufactured chemicals

• farming that only produces healthy crops

• farming that produces high yield crops

Choose the economic factors

• transport, irrigation, terracing

• transport, capital, technology

• government loans, land tenure, nomadic

Rice is a/an ......

• pastoral crop

• organic crop

• intensive crop

How many hours per year does it take to farm 1 hectare of rice paddy?

• 2000

• 1500

• 3500

Terracing is the ......

• flattening of land for farming

• stepping of land for farming

• ploughing of land for farming

How conflict lead to food shortages?

• kills the farmers

• displaces people from land

• soliders take all the food for themselves

Which vitamin deficiency is rickets caused by?

• C

• B

• D