1. Teacher Name: Ms.Seema Adil
Agriculture Lecture
Teacher Name: Ms.Seema Adil

2. Agriculture-System PROCESS INPUT OUTPUT Food grains, cash crops…. etc
Ploughing, sowing, harvesting …..etc.
INPUT
NATURAL
HUMAN

3. Agriculture-Inputs Natural Input Human Input Soil Climate Water Labour
Capital
Machinery
Fertilizers
Pesticides

4. Agriculture-Process Ploughing Sowing Irrigating Fertilizing
Pesticiding
Harvesting
Threshing
Packaging

5. Ploughing / Plowing
It is a process in which soil is prepared for sowing seeds
It is done with the help of bullocks or a tractor
Roots , weeds and other unnecessary things are cleaned in this process

6. Ploughing

7. June 2008 Q.1

8. Sowing Seeds Seeds are both natural or engineered
Seeds are sown at certain depth with the help of sowing machines or by human hands
Different crops have different sowing methods

9. SEEDS
Soyabean Maize

10. Fertilizing
Fertilizer is soil nutrients Fertilizers are both natural and man made
Fertilizers are used to make a crop
Healthy (quality)
Rich (quantity)

11. Fertilizing
Fertilizers are mostly Urea, Potassium, Phosphorous or Nitrogen compounds
Fertilizers are applied after sowing seeds

12. Irrigation is to supply water to agriculture fields
Irrigating
Irrigation is to supply water to agriculture fields
A Tube Well is shown
A Canal
A Tube Well

13. Pesticiding Pesticides Germicides Insecticides Herbicides
To kill insects
Germicides
To kill germs
Herbicides
To kill weeds

14. Pesticiding
Pesticides are applied to control harmful insects, germs and weeds (small plants)
Pesticides must be used in recommended quantity for good result
Over use of pesticide creates ‘Salinity’

15. Harvesting Harvesting is to cut a ready crop
Harvesting is done by man power with the help of a sickle
A modern machine ‘Harvester’ is also used
A ready wheat crop

16. Threshing Threshing is to separate grains from chuff after harvesting
Threshing is done by man or animal power
A modern machine ‘Thresher’ is also used

17. Packaging
Packaging is to pack grains in jute or polythene bags / sacks for storage
Packaging is done by labourers
Packaging is also done by special sewing machines
Different Packaging methods are used for different crops
A Cotton Bale