Unit-2+Agriculture+and+the+world

= = = 1.Unit Title = toc **Food production and preservation**

2.AOI:
Environments

3.MYP Unit Question:
How could we find global solution for sustainable living?

4.Significant concept:
Organic farming is better over use of chemicals in farming.

5.Introductory video on agriculture:
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 * 1. What makes coconut boom in Kerala?**



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http://www.ifad.org/events/iyff/

What is the International Year of Family Farming? Small family farms are the key to reducing poverty and improving global food security.

6.Links to online articles and magzines on Agriculture
http://businesstoday.intoday.in/categorylist/15/1/agriculture.html http://www.kisankiawaaz.org/ http://www.bhoomimagazine.org/food-health/item/35-what-every-indian-should-know-about-agriculture/35-what-every-indian-should-know-about-agriculture http://www.mpkrishi.org/EngDocs/AgriLeft/alliedAgencies.aspx

The political economy of food exports: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/c-p-chandrasekhar/the-political-economy-of-food-exports/article4570293.ece

7.Questions:

 * Text book based questions: **

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1. Define the following terms: agriculture, farming Shifting agriculture, subsistence agriculture Intensive and Extensive agriculture, dairy farming, horticulture and truck farming.

2.Technology and agriculture are dependent on each other **. **

Why UN launches International Year to spotlight role of family farms in reducing hunger, poverty? Explain briefly. For further refernce go through this website. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp/story.asp?NewsID=46566&Cr=food+security&Cr1=#.UwyEc-OSwYM

Key points:
 * Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil and raising crops and livelihood and livestock.
 * Relief, climatic conditions, soil and economic factores influce agriculture.
 * The different types of farming are - subsistence, shifting,nomadic hearding, sedentary farming, intensive, commercial farming , extensive farming , mixed farming ,plantation agriculture and dairy farming.
 * In the commercial farming, both crops are cultivated and livestoc are reared for sale in the market.
 * Extensive farming is carried out on large landholdings with the help of machines.
 * A large estate in which tea, coffee, banana or rubber are cultivated is called a plantations.
 * In diary farming cattle are reared for mil to meet the needs of the industrial cities.
 * Rice is grown in hot and humid tropical and subtropical regions.
 * Wheat is cultivated in the mid- latitudes and in the dry subtropical regions.
 * Important maize producing countries are USA, Russia, China, Brazil and Argentina.
 * Coarse grains are called millets,
 * Important sugarcane producing countries are Brazil, Cuba, India, Mexico and Pakistan.
 * Cotton grows best in black soil.
 * Jute grows well in the deltas of river valleys which have warm and wet climate.
 * Tea plants are cultivated on the hill slopes to avoid water logging.
 * Important coffee producing countries are Brazil, Colombia and India.
 * Agriculture in India depends on the monsoon rains.
 * In USA, most of the farm work is done by machines.

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