Across
- 2. a country which has large scale commercial sugar farming
- 5. farmer selling his/her output to make money
- 8. name of the severe wind erosion in the high plains and prairies of USA and Canada
- 10. cause of food shortages and can be caused by leaching of minerals and overgrazing
- 11. fertiliser most commonly used in subsistence farming
- 13. They destroy crops and and example would be locust swarms
- 15. a type of natural disaster whose torrential winds can destroy crops
- 17. system to water crops in intervals and in a controlled manner
- 18. land previously used for food production was used to grow crops to create this energy source
- 19. caused fixed roles for men and women and hence prevents subsistence farmers from increasing output
- 20. meeting the needs of today without harming the needs of the future generation
Down
- 1. a human input which is the money needed to start a business
- 3. he artificial cultivation of crops and the rearing of animals for food and other products
- 4. crops grown in in narrowband in a single field and harvested at different times
- 6. a way to increase food supplies, introduced in India for 5 cereal crops
- 7. physical input that includes temperature, rainfall and sunshine
- 9. where only one type of crop is grown in a field repetetively
- 12. a type of farming which has a small area of land and high labour input per hectare
- 14. planting a seed
- 16. a system of agricultural improvements made to increase food supplies between 1960 and 1990