O'Level Notes

 

 

Agriculture

 

• It is of three types :-

  • Arable (crop farming)

  • Pastoral (livestock farming)

  • Mixed (crops + livestock farming)

• It is a primary profession as raw materials are obtained directly from nature / ground / earth. Other examples are fishing, mining and forestry.

 

Crop farming as a system

 

Inputs

• Land

• Soil

• Temperature

• Rainfall

• Machines

• Fertilizers

• Labor

• Knowledge

• Irrigation

 

Processes

• Ploughing

• Sowing

• Irrigating

• Threshing

• Fertilizing

• Weeding

• Harvesting

 

Outputs

• Wheat

• Rice

• Cotton

• Sugarcane