Traditional agriculture------While Niulang worked in the fields, the princess wove at home ploughinga buffalo weaving One-family business What are the features of traditional agriculture? Features Niulang worked in fields while Zhinv wove at home. Climate kinds of cropsPloughing production Traditional agricultureTraditional agriculture Which paragraphs talk about the following idea?Which paragraphs talk about the following idea?(Para 1)c.A brief introduction to agriculture and arable land in China(Para 2)a.many farming techniques have been modernised(Para 3)d.Scientists started to develop new techniques to increase agricultural production without harming the environment(Para 4-6)b. the latest technologies are used in modern agriculture Find out the words with the same meaning in your textbook:Find out the words with the same meaning in your textbook:• Arable• traditional • Irrigation• modernize• seedbeds • Import• GM can be used for farming not modernWatering becoming modernfields where seeds are grownbring ingenetically modified Part1. Introduction1. Can you use a phrase to describe the agriculture in China for thousands of years?2. What’s the percentage of arable land in China?One-family businessOnly seven percent It is on this arable land that farmers produce food for the whole population of China. Part2. Farmers make use of different techniques to increase farm production. Which of the following ways are mentioned? A. the use of machines, eg. tractors ( ) B. the use of electric pumps ( ) C. the use of chemical fertilizers ( ) D. the use of insect killers ( ) E. the use of special seedbeds ( ) F. more than one crop is planted each year wherever possible ( ) Part3.Modern agriculture means finding wa...
