geo agriculture

What is the significance of agriculture in a country?

• To generate income

• To provide employment

• To supply food

• All options are correct

What benefit does agriculture provide to the economy?

• It creates employment

• It generates income

• It reduces the need to import food

• All of the options are correct

What are the factors that influence the type of agriculture in an area?

• Soil type and climate

• Labour supply and access to market only

• Capital investments and market demands only

• Access to market

• The schools in the area

What does agriculture provide for many manufacturing industries?

• Employment opportunities

• capital investments

• Raw materials

• None of the above

Match the following

• Agriculture

• The practice of cultivating the soil to produce crops and

  rear animals.

• Sustainability:

• A large-scale farming enterprise.

• Deforestation

• The idea of continued development, without damage to the

  environment.

• Agroforestry

• A land use management system in which trees or shrubs

  are grown around or among crops or pastureland.

• Agribusiness:

• The cutting down of trees in a large area, or the destruction of

  forests by people.

  Environment: A place where different things are

Match the following

• Peasant farming

• The practice of growing two or more crops together in the

  same field at the same time.

• Market Gardening

• : The growing of crops and the rearing of animals together,practised on a commercial scale in developed countries to reduce financial

  risks of relying on one crop or animal to survive.

• Mixed Cropping

• A type of small scale agriculture in which peasant farmers grow

  crops and often rear some livestock. Some of the produce is used to feed the family

  and the surplus is sold.

• Mixed farming

• Also known as Cattle ranching, this is the raising of animals, usually on land which is less favorable to arable farming (i.e.

  colder, wetter, steeper and higher land).

• Pastoral farming

• The cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and other crops for sale

  in local or regional markets.

The type of agriculture that aims to meet society’s food and

textile needs in the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is known as ​

textile needs in the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

​ (a)  

• Sustainable agriculture
• Yield
• Fertilisers
• Agribusiness

Three ways of ensuring sustainable agriculture

• Terracing

• Deforrestastion

• Crop rotation

• Mixed cropping

• Mulching

With the growth of a population in a country, there is need to meet the

increased demand for food.

With this increased demand it leads to many environmental problems

such as ​ (a)   , and ​ (b)   .

• deforestation
• soil erosion
• agroforestry
• agribusiness

Another name for Peasant Farming is

• commercial arable farming

• market gardening

• Pastoral Farming

• Mixed cropping

• Subsistence Farming