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Agriculture for Secondary Schools
Straw Sweet sorghum
the dry stems and leaves of a rice a type of sorghum with a high sugar
plant that have been harvested and content, grown for syrup and fuel
discarded after threshing
The curd
Stress solid part formed when milk separates
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a state of tension or strain resulting during cheese making
from adverse or demanding
circumstances Thinning
removing extra plants to allow better
Stunning spacing and healthy growth
the act of making an animal
unconscious and unable to sense Threshing
pain, shortly before being killed for
meat the process of separating grains or
seeds from the harvested plants, often
Stunted done by beating, machine processing,
not growing to its full size or rubbing the harvested crop
Sun drying Tillering
a method of using sunlight to remove growth stage of the rice plant that
excess moisture from things like extends from the appearance of the
meat, hides, grains or seeds to prevent first tiller until the maximum tiller
spoilage number is reached
Supplementary feed Transport costs
additional feed containing energy, the money spent to move animals,
protein or vitamins and minerals fed crops or products from the farm to
to grazing animals to add nutrients markets or buyers
Suppressed Trellising
reduced or stopped using ropes and poles to support
Sustainable farming climbing plants
a farming with practices that protect Vaccine
the environment, support farmers a substance which contains a
financially, and benefit communities, harmless form of a pathogen (usually
making sure it can continue for a long a virus) and is given to an animal (or a
time without causing harm person) to prevent them from getting
Sustainable farming the disease which the pathogen can
practices that do not harm the cause
environment, use resources wisely, Value chain
and ensure that crops can continue the full range of activities needed to
to be grown in the future create a product or service from the
initial point of production to the final
customer or consumer
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