Theory question 104
Agriculture(a) What is crop farming?
(b) Outline any four measures that can be adopted to increase crop production in your country.
(c) State any two contributions of the industrial sector to agriculture in your country.
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(a) Crop farming is the cultivation of plants (food crops and cash crops) on land for food, raw materials or sale.
(b) Any four: provision of improved seeds and fertilisers; mechanisation; credit facilities to farmers; extension services; irrigation; land tenure reform; better storage and processing; guaranteed prices/marketing; rural infrastructure; pest and disease control; research.
(c) Any two: supplies farm machines, tools and fertilisers/agrochemicals; provides market for agricultural raw materials; processes and preserves farm produce; provides jobs and income that raise demand for food.
Measures should raise yields or the area cultivated.