Q.1. What is the origin of the word "agriculture"?
Q.2. Define Primary, Secondary and Tertiary activities with examples.
Q.3. What is arable land?
Q.4. Define the terms
(1) agriculture
(2) pisciculture
(3) viticulture
(4) horticulture
(5) sericulture
Answers
Answer:
1)Primary sector :- This includes all those connected with extraction and production of natural resources. Ex:- Agriculture, fishing, mining, etc. 2)Secondary sector :- These are concerned with processing of resources. ... 3)Tertiary sector :- These provide support to the primary and secondary sectors through services.
Q.1. What is the origin of the word "agriculture"?
late Middle English: from Latin agricultura, from ager, agr- ‘field’ + cultura ‘growing, cultivation’.
Q.2. Define Primary Sector activities. example.
The primary sector includes all those activities the end purpose of which consists in exploiting natural resources: agriculture, fishing, forestry, mining, deposits.
Q.2. Define Secondary sector activity.example
Activities associated with the secondary sector include metal working and smelting, automobile production, textile production, chemical and engineering industries, aerospace manufacturing, energy utilities, engineering, breweries and bottlers, construction, and shipbuilding.
Q.2. Define Tertiary sector activities. example.
Tertiary activity consists of all service occupations. Transport, communication, trade, health, education and administration are important examples of tertiary activities. These tertiary activities help in the development of the primary and secondary sectors.
Q.3. What is arable land?
Arable land is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops. Alternatively, for the purposes of agricultural statistics, the term often has a more precise definition: "Arable land is the .
Q.4)1) Define Agriculture.
practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
Q.4)2) Define Pisciculture.
The breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means is called pisciculture, in other words, fish farming. It is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. It involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food.
Q.4)3) Define Viticultural.
the culture or cultivation of grapevines; grape-growing. the study or science of grapes and their culture.
Q.4)4) Define Hoticultural.
Horticulture is the agriculture of plants, mainly for food, materials, comfort and beauty for decoration. Horticulturists apply knowledge, skills, and technologies to grow intensively produced plants for human food and non-food uses and for personal or social needs.
Q.4)5) Define Sericulture.
Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm. Silk was believed to have first been produced in China as early as the Neolithic Period.