Food Production and Management
Science Solutions from Chapter -1 - Food Production and Management
This chapter highlights the uses of bacteria and fungus in food industries. Here, it defines the terms, such as agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture, green revolution, and white revolution. It also discusses the common names of plants and animals.
Practice Other Topics from Food Production and Management
The topic defines the meaning of the term agriculture. We will learn about the involvement of people in agriculture in India. It also covers the products which are obtained from plants as well as animals.
In this topic, we will learn about the orchards. It discusses the trees and the method by which they are grown in the orchards. Here, we will learn what horticulture is and what plants are cultivated in this type of agriculture.
In this topic, we will learn about the green revolution. It will discuss the impact and outcome of this revolution. We will study organic farming and its advantages along with the factors on which crop production depends.
This topic highlights the important nutrients that are derived by the plants from the soil. We will study the importance of soil. It also highlights the different types of soil, such as sandy, clayey, and black soil, and the crops grown in them.
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture, which deals with food, health and management of animals. This topic highlights the methods of obtaining food from animals by the processes, which can be done on a large scale.
In this topic, we will learn about useful microorganisms. We will study the meaning of microbiology. We will discuss the definition of pathogens. We will also understand how these are useful for the digestive system.
