Quiz on Section E

What do subsidies for pesticides and artificial fertilisers encourage farmers to do?

• Rotate crops frequently

• Use lesser quantities than needed

• Use greater quantities than needed

• Stop using pesticides and fertilisers

According to a study by the International Rice Research Institute, what was the impact of pesticide use on farmers in South East Asia?

• Pesticides had no impact on crop yield

• Pesticides were not effective at all

• Moderate applications of pesticide cost farmers more than they saved

• Farmers saved a lot of money by using pesticides

How many people die from pesticide poisoning every year?

• 1,000

• 100

• 100,000

• 10,000

What is one of the costs of overuse of pesticides according to the text?

• Increase in crop yield

• Decrease in farmer's income

• Resistance of bugs and weeds to poisons

• Decrease in human population

What happened to the use of artificial fertilisers worldwide between the mid 1970s and late 1980s?

• Decreased by 40%

• Increased by 40%

• Increased by 20%

• Remained the same

What may overuse of fertilisers cause farmers to stop doing?

• Leaving their land fallow

• Rotating crops

• Using pesticides

• Increasing crop yield

What is the impact of bugs and weeds becoming resistant to poisons?

• Pesticides become less harmful

• Farmers save more money

• Pesticides become ineffective

• Farmers must use more lethal poisons

How many people become seriously ill from pesticide poisoning every year?

• 400,000

• 40,000

• 4,000,000

• 400

What is the impact of farmers stopping to rotate crops or leave their land fallow?

• Increase in soil erosion

• Decrease in crop yield

• Increase in crop variety

• Decrease in pesticide use

What is the impact of overuse of fertilisers on crop rotation?

• Farmers rotate crops in the opposite direction

• Farmers rotate crops seasonally

• Farmers stop rotating crops

• Farmers rotate crops more frequently