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CAP:The Common Agricultural Policy is a system of European Union agricultural subsidies and programmes.Reforms of the system are currently underway reducing import controls and transferring subsidy to land stewardship rather than specific crop production.

BSE: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad-cow disease (MCD), is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease in cattle, that causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and spinal cord.

GM FOODS: Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from genetically modified organisms. Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering, using a process of either Cisgenesis or Transgenesis.

Green Revolution refers to the transformation of agriculture that began in 1945, largely due to the life work of Norman Borlaug. One significant factor in this revolution was the Mexican government's request to establish an agricultural research station to develop more varieties of wheat that could be used to feed the rapidly growing population of the country.

THE IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE.

The Agriculture is important. Before, was more important.But today is even, because the agriculture provides occupation. About 45% of the world workforce was employed in the agriculture. The alimentary production continues increasing like the harvests by hectare,too the trade in agricultural products has increased and the Agriculture provides the base

of a lot of manufacture and industries of service and alimentary and a variety of services.

FARMING TYPES

A) Modern Mediterrenean agriculture.

B) Wet rice farming

C) Extensive commercial farming

D) Shifting cultivation.

E) Dry and extensive agriculture.

F) Market gardening.

G) Plantation agriculture.

Join words and definitions

1.Arable : f. the cultivation of crops.

2.Commercial: d. the products are sold to make a profit.

3.Intensive: a. high input and yield per unit area.

4.Nomadie: g. farmers moved seasonally with their herds.

5.Extensive: e. low input an yield per unit area.

6.Pastoral: b. reaning animals.

7.Sedentay: h. farmers remain in the same place throughout the year.

8.Subsistence: c. the products are consumed by the cultivators.

KEY WORDS

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-Crops (cultivos) : a pounch in many birds and some lower animals that resenbles a stomach for torage and preliminary maceration of food.

-Cattle (ganado) : domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age.

-Relief (alivio) : the act of reducing something unpleasant.

-Soil (tierra) : material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow. Agricultural soil.

-Labour (trabajo): productive work.

-Farmer (agricultor) : a person that works in the crop of vegetables.

-Yield (cosecha) :production of de harvest

-Herd (manada) : a group of animals that takes care them a person

-Seeds (semillas) : each one of the part that it origin to a new plant.

-Input (importación) : buy other products manufactures in other countries.

-Outout (exportación) : when send products to other countries.