FARMING OR AGRICULTURE

1) KEY WORDS

CROPS, cultivos

CATTLE, bovinos

RELIEF, franquicia

SOIL, suelo

LABOUR, laboral
FARMER, agricultor

YIELD, rendimiento

HERD, rebaño

SEEDS,

semillas

INPUT/OUTPUT, entrada/salida

2) THE IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE.

Read this text and make a framework with the main ideas:

“ Agriculture is important for a number of reasons: - Agriculture provides employment. About 45% of the world’s workforce was employed in farming in the mid-1990s; Although the economic importance of agriculture is declining, as measured by contribution to GNP, it is still of considerable significance in many countries. In India it accounts for 30% of GNP, Ethiopia 51%, Ghana 45%, and Tanzania 56%. - Food production conti

nues to rise and yields per hectare have increased. - Trade in agricultural products h

as increased. - Farmland accounts for about 36% of global land use. About 10% of the world is used for arable agriculture, 26% for permanent pasture, 30% forest, and the rest urban and waste land. - Agriculture provides the basis of many manufacturing and service industries such as food processing, agricultural equipment, agricultural inputs (seeds, fertiliser, etc.) and a variety of services including finance, veterinary, m

arketing, and transport.”

*.Agriculture provides employment.

*.The importance of agriculture is declining.

*.Agriculture is important in some countries, like India.

*.Agricultural trade has increased.

*.Agriculture is the basis for many industries.

*.It also affects other sectors.

3) CLASSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURE

Join words and definitions.

arable-the cultivation of crops

commercial-products are sold to make profit

intensive-high imputs and yields per unit area

nomadic-farmers moved seasonally with their herds

extensive-low imputs and yiels per unit area

pastoral-rearing animals

sedentary-farmers remain in the same place throughout the year

subsistence-products are consumed by the cultivators