Cover Image
close this bookBetter Farming Series 15 - Cereals (FAO - INADES, 1977, 51 p.)
View the document(introduction...)
View the documentPreface
Open this folder and view contentsWhat are food crops?
Open this folder and view contentsGrowing cereals in the modern way
Open this folder and view contentsSorghum and millet
Open this folder and view contentsMaize
Open this folder and view contentsOther cereals
View the documentSuggested question paper

Suggested question paper

FILL IN THE MISSING WORDS

Cereals are plants which yield ............................
When the slope is vary steep .........................is used.
Crop rotation means growing a .........................each year on.........................
Farmers who sell their grain just after the harvest .........................money.
Cereal grains are good food for .........................and for
Millet stems are cut with a ..............................
Grain should be sold when ..............................
Wheat flour is used for making ...........................

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

What cereals are grown in your region?
Where you live are cereal grains given to animals?
Why must more cereals be produced?
What is shifting cultivation?
Why must trees be grubbed out?
Where you live is a winch used for grubbing?
How do you protect the soil against the sun?
What is thinning?
Which are the chief enemies of cereals?
How do they thresh cereals where you live?
When should the farmer sell his millet? Why?
What are the different names of millet in the language of your country?
What is each variety of millet used for (food, beer, ...)?
What is the way to get a new variety of maize? Why must you sow at the right time?
Are fonio, finger millet or wheat grown where you live?