This is the most superficial layer of soil. Here we grow plants and crops.
What is humus?
What is Africa?
These factors define Agriculture in the New Countries. (any 2)
What is post-colonial countries? What is large plots of land? What is highly-skilled labour?
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
These are the three types of traditional farming.
What are "shifting," "dryland," and "irrigated monsoon" agriculture?
This type of agricultural economy produces to sell, and tends to specialise in one type of crop/livestock.
What is market economy?
This type of an agricultural plot is marked by simple markers for identification.
What is open plot?
In this type of agriculture, multinational companies cultivate a single type of crop in huge plots of land for sale in rich countries.
What is plantation farming?
Three types of animals usually involved in livestock farming.
What are (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry...)?
This is usually the main purpose of doing traditional farming.
What is self-consumption?
Advanced societies use these modern techniques for farming (any three).
What is chemical fertilizers? Greenhouses? Selection of animal and plant species? Advanced irrigation? Phytosanitary products?
These types of countries feature less than 10% of the population working in the agricultural industry.
What are developed countries?
This is a key feature of agriculture modernisation- one type of labour being replaced by another.
What is automation? Mechanisation? Robotification?
This type of livestock rearing is practised by the Touaregs of the Sahara and the Bedouins of the Arab Peninsula.
What is nomadic rearing?
What is "Shifting Cultivation"?
In this type of land exploitation, the landowner assigns the usage of the farm to other people through leasing or sharecropping.
What is indirect exploitation?
Forestry development provides us with these types of food and raw materials (5 possibilities... or more!).
What are fruits, fungi
(food)?
What is cork; wood; resin (raw materials for other industries).
Use of these technologies allows for increased crop production at a cheap price (any 3).
What is crop specialisation? What is seed and fertiliser selection? What is pesticides sprayed from airplanes? What is mechanization?
These are the three kinds of hardwood trees found in tropical forests.
What is mahogany, ebony, teak?
3 countries where "Irrigated Monsoon Agriculture" is carried out.
What is China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines?
If a piece of soil has too much of either of these, measured using the pH scale, it is toxic for plants.
What is acidity and basicity?
3 examples of non-urban (rural) activities of a city.
What are factories, housing estates, leisure areas, shopping centres?
2 similarities between New Countries agriculture and Plantation agriculture.
What is large plots of land? What is same locations of activity? What is use of modern tech? What is mass production?
What is 221, 441, 428l (221,441 tons)?
Dryland farming may take place in these three ways.
What are cultivating a main crop (millet), a complementary crop (peanuts) and fallow land (fertilised by cattle)?