Activity 10.

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Quiz on Farming System and Cropping Systems
Direction: Identify which Cropping Systems is describe in the questions
below. Write your answers in the blanks provided

Monoculture Multistorey cropping Integrated Farming

Diversified Farming Farming System Farm

System Sustainable
Agriculture

Low external input farming Farming

1. defined as a population of individual farm systems that have broadly similar resource bases,
enterprise patterns, household livelihoods and constraints, and for which similar development strategies and
interventions would be appropriate.

2.It is a dynamic approach which can be applied to any farming system around the world. It
involves attention to detail and continuous improvement in all areas of the farming business through informed
management processes.

_3. it is the maximum utilization of the local resource with less dependency on external input for
agricultural production. LEIA is one of the integration forms of local resource use in LEIA may result in over
exploitation of natural resource, with adverse ecological and farming system effects and impacts or marginality and
poverty.
__________4. is one that has several production enterprises or sources of income but no source of income as
much as 50% of the total income form the source on such farm farmers depends on several sources of incomes. It is
also called as general farming.

_5. A system where the crop components develop their canopies at different strata; crop
components should have varying nutritional and environmental requirements and morphological and physiological
features; each crop component must be fertilized.

6. Repetitive growing of the same crop on the same land. Monocropping is the agricultural
practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land, in the absence of rotation through other crops or
growing multiple crops on the same land (polyculture).

7. It is an organized decision-making unit in which crop and livestock production is carried out
with the purpose of satisfying the farmer’s goal.

8. An assemblage of objects and activities united by some form of regular interaction of

interdependence.
 _9. Is an activity carried out by households on holdings that represent management units organized
for the economic production of crops and livestock.

10. is the appropriate use of the land and other resources in the rural areas and the method of
raising productivity without adverse effects on the environment.
income form the source on such farm farmers depends on several sources of incomes. It is also called as general
farming.

_5. A system where the crop components develop their canopies at different strata; crop
components should have varying nutritional and environmental requirements and morphological and physiological
features; each crop component must be fertilized.

6. Repetitive growing of the same crop on the same land. Monocropping is the agricultural
practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land, in the absence of rotation through other crops or
growing multiple crops on the same land (polyculture).

7. It is an organized decision-making unit in which crop and livestock production is carried out
with the purpose of satisfying the farmer’s goal.

8. An assemblage of objects and activities united by some form of regular interaction of

interdependence.

_9. Is an activity carried out by households on holdings that represent management units organized
for the economic production of crops and livestock.

10. is the appropriate use of the land and other resources in the rural areas and the method of
raising productivity without adverse effects on the environment.