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1. The growing of grapes is called ......
2. The slash and burn method is associated with ... agriculture
3. What pisciculture is to fish, ...... is to milch animals.
4. Crops that are grown to be sold or exported are called ....
crops.
5. ...... is the staple crop of India.
6. In India, the states of ...... and ...... are leading producers of cotton.
7. ...... refers to the availability of and access to food.
8........crops are grown to feed farm animals.
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Answer:
1. Viticulture is the process of growing the grapes that are used to make wine.
2. Slash and burn farming is a form of shifting agriculture where the natural vegetation is cut down and burned as a method of clearing the land for cultivation, and then, when the plot becomes infertile, the farmer moves to a new fresh plat and does the same again. This process is repeated over and over.
The soil loses its fertility because the richness of the rainforest is in the trees. As leaves fall or trees die everything is broken down by the soil’s organisms, nutrients are returned to the soil and the tree roots take them up again. Thus continuous recycling keeps everything fertile and growing. When this no longer happens in a cleared plot it soon becomes infertile. Torrential tropical rains quickly wash nutrients out of the soil when it is left bare after harvest.Maybe about 250 million farmers (they are not easy to count) are forced to eke out a living like that on these poor rainforest soils. By slashing and then burning the forest, these farmers can usually sustain themselves for only 2 consecutive years on the same patch of soil. Indeed quite often they clear a new plot every year.
The soil then loses its fertility and the farmer is faced with either a daily walk of several miles to a new patch or, increasingly as the number of landless farmers grows, they may have to uproot their families to move.
Often they have to cultivate hillsides as all the land lower down is used up, and as they progress up and up they are likely to meet another farmer at the top who has similarly worked his way up from the other side.When the plots are far from the dwelling place cash crops cannot be guarded from thieves or wild animals, nor can the family help when there are young children. This too ensures the farmers remain poor.
In earlier times when the population density was less, slash and burn worked reasonably well. It was then possible to leave the plots fallow for 15 to 20 years which allowed considerable regrowth of the forest and good restoration of soil fertility. Now the plots have to be reused too soon, with increasing loss of fertility. But even when it was possible to grow enough food reasonably easily with this system the farmers still remained relatively poor.
Not only is this devastating the worlds remaining tropical forests (see "keeping carbon in the trees" and "saving the rich diverse life of the rainforests") while keeping the farmers in poverty, but it is also forcing many of them to abandon the land, and migrate to city slums in the hope of feeding their families. Life in the slums can be very hard indeed. There is not enough work available.
3. pisciculture is to fish then cattle farming is to much animals.
4. Cash crops are the crops that are grown to be sold or exported.
5. Rice is the staple food crop of India. ... India stands second in the production of rice producing 155.682 Million Metric Tonnes per annum after China with the highest production. Rice is the staple food for Indians and India's climate is very much suitable for rice cultivation.
6. Indian Scenario
Among the states, Maharashtra was reported as leading in cotton acreage (44.05 lakh ha) followed by Gujarat (26.66 lakh ha), Telangana (18.59 lakh ha), Haryana (7.01 lakh ha) and Rajasthan (6.44 lakh ha).
7. Food security is defined as the availability of food and one's access to it. ... Commonly, the concept of food security is defined as including both physical and economic access to food that meets people's dietary needs as well as their food preferences.
8. According to the USDA's website, corn, barley, oats and sorghum are used as major feed grains in the U.S., with corn “accounting for more than 95 percent of total feed grain and production use.” In the U.S., 36 percent of corn crops being used to feed livestock.
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