AGRICULTURE

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