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How Crops are Produced ?

Agriculture is the branch of science dealing with production of food. The term agriculture is derived from Latin word
“agercultura” where “ager” means field and “cultura” means care. Crop production involves preparation of soil,
sowing of seeds, application of fertilizers, irrigation, harvesting followed by grains protection and storage.

Discussion

Jack : Hi...suzi...How were your Suzi : That's nice Jack....my
vacations?...you know that vacations were also good.
I went to Ooty, Shimla and And finally we are back to
Mussoorie. our classroom.
Jack : Yup!! Suzi : So let’s go and read our
first chapter dealing with
crop production.
Suzi : Jack...please...Don’t you
Jack : Crop production ?? Girl I
start again ...Because
k n o w a b o u t b u t . . . .
production of food ??? even I don’t have an idea
or a brief to explain you.
Let’s understand the
chapter...Ok.

AGRICULTURE Types of crops are following :

Definition: Agriculture or farming or (a) On the basis of their products :
husbandry deals with the cultivation of (i) Cereals : These are the edible seeds.
animals or plants to meet or fulfil the demand Examples of cereals include wheat and
of food, fibres, fuel, etc. required for life rice, etc.
sustainence. The methods adopted for
(ii) Fibre crops : Field crops raised for fibre
agriculture are called agricultural practices.
are called fibre crops. These include
CROPS jute, cotton, etc.

Definition : Crops include the plants of same (iii) Pulses : These are leguminous crops.
kind cultivated and raised on the same place at Examples of pulses include peas,
a very large scale. beans, etc.

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