Agriculture

What is agriculture?

• Agriculture is the growing of crops for food.

• Agriculture is the rearing of animals for food and raw materials.

• Agriculture is the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food and raw materials.

• Agriculture is the mining of the ground for precious metals.

A farmer is a _________________.

• secondary producer

• primary producer

• tertiary producer

• primary consumer

_____________ is a raw material used to make chocolate.

• Cocoa

• Corn

• Wood

• Leather

Agriculture provides __________________ and _________________ for people.

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Two raw materials from cattle include _______________ and ______________.

• leather and wool

• milk and mutton

• leather and pork

• dairy and leather

Grenada is responsible for more than 20% of the world's production of ___________________.

• sugar cane

• citrus fruits

• nutmeg

• coffee

A duty of a farm labourer is _____________________.

• ploughing the fields.

• to find new ways to grow plants for food.

• to treat diseases in plants.

• to carry out cross-breeding experiments.

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Poultry means _____________________.

• all birds.

• birds kept around people for food or as pets.

• birds in the wild.

• only birds that can fly.

Two types of poultry are _____________ and ______________.

Broilers are kept:

• for laying eggs as food.

• for laying eggs and being eaten.

• for meat production.

• to produce eggs for hatching.