Agriculture

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  1. 4. Sums of money provided by the government to farmers to encourage certain farming practices.
  2. 7. Animals kept by farmers for their meat or other products.
  3. 10. farming The type of production of food on a large scale, usually very capital intensive, to make a profit. Causing an excess of output that is sold in a market to earn profit. More common in MEDCs.
  4. 12. Rearing or animals and growing of crops
  5. 14. farming Small scale farming, mostly labour intensive, and producing little crop as output, which is used to feed immediate family and close friends. Common in LEDCs.
  6. 16. Erosion The loss of soil from a field's surface by the action of wind or water, often accelerated by human actions.
  7. 18. The practice of leaving a field untouched at intervals of time to allow the soil to regenerate.
  8. 20. farming Low amount of inputs in relation to land.
  9. 21. A shortage of food causing malnutrition and hunger.
  10. 24. Farming This avoids the use of inorganic chemical fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides.
  11. 28. Chemicals sprayed onto plants that kill insects and other pests.
  12. 29. The starting material in a system, which is subjected to many steps to later produce something.
  13. 31. The accumulation in the soil of salts due to exploitation of water table.
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  1. 1. A series of actions or steps taking place that convert inputs to outputs
  2. 2. Limits set to prevent overproduction of certain crops.
  3. 3. Growing of crops
  4. 5. Crops that are grown from better quality seeds and usually provided a healthy surplus of crop
  5. 6. A farming system in which a single crop is grown continuously in the same field.
  6. 8. Chemicals put into the soil to increase its fertility, usually rich in nitrates and phosphates.
  7. 9. Seeds that have been biologically altered to have better qualities, such as disease resistance.
  8. 11. The excessive use of farmland to the point where productivity falls due to soil exhaustion or land degradation.
  9. 13. Fields on steep hillsides are terraced to provide flat growing areas for crops.
  10. 15. Conservation: methods of protecting the soil from erosion e.g. hedges, terraces, contour ploughing, strip cropping.
  11. 17. Crops grown for animal feed, usually stored and fed to the animals during the winter months
  12. 19. Poisonous chemicals applied to crops to kill weeds.
  13. 22. The artificial watering of the land.
  14. 23. farming Large amount of inputs per unit of land, thus inputs are more concentrated as plots are usually small in relation.
  15. 25. Cereals, vegetables and fruit grown by people.
  16. 26. The finished products of a system
  17. 27. Degradation: The deterioration of the suitability of land for farming due to soil erosion, desertification and salinisation. The exhaustion of nutrients in the soil.
  18. 30. Rearing of animals, usually in hilly, grassy areas.