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Agriculture for Secondary Schools

by air sacs in the lungs becoming red, Puberty
painful and swollen, and they may the age at which male and female
be filled with fluid, causing difficult gonads become capable of producing
breathing, chills, fever and cough reproductive cells (gametes)
with phlegm or sputum
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Pod borer Puddled wet rice field ready for
a caterpillar that eats into legume sowing
pods and damages the seeds Pulse crops

Pod-sucking bugs legumes grown for their seeds, such
insects that suck juice from pigeon as beans, peas and chickpeas; they
pea pods, causing shrivelling and are rich in protein and essential for
poor seed development a healthy diet; they are also essential
for income and improving soil health
Portfolio
a collective document of a student’s Quelea birds
learning activities that provides small birds that gather in large
realistic evidence of the individual’s numbers to eat crops particularly
efforts, skills, abilities, achievements, cereal grains
contributions as well as reflection and Raised platform
self-assessment over time a structure used to keep crop grains

Post-harvest management off the ground while drying to prevent
the actions taken after crops are contamination
harvested to ensure they are stored, Ranching
handled, and sold in good condition an expansive system of raising
to avoid waste and increase profits livestock mainly through grazing
Powdery mildew Range/range land
a disease that appears as white or an extensive area of land dominated
grey powder on leaves and stems, by natural or semi-natural vegetation
reducing plant strength suitable for grazing domestic or wild
herbivores
Pregnancy (gestation)
the period when an animal is carrying Recordkeeping
its baby before birth; in cows, it lasts the practice of documenting all
around nine months farming activities, such as planting
dates, Fertiliser applications, pest
Profitability control methods, and harvest yields;
the ability of a farm to make a profit, good recordkeeping helps farmers
meaning the money earned from make better decisions in the future
selling crops/products is greater than
the costs of producing them Regurgitation
a process by which ruminants bring
back feed materials from the rumen

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