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Harvest
Harvest
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Harvest
Harvest
Harvest is the process of gathering mature crops from the fields. Reaping is the cutting
of grain or pulse for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper.
The harvest marks the end of the growing season, or the growing cycle for a particular
crop, and social importance of this event makes it the focus of seasonal celebrations
such as a harvest festival, found in many religions.
Sickle
Scythe
Reaper
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Crops
A crop is any cultivated plant, fungus, or alga that
is harvested for food, clothing, livestock fodder, biofuel, medicine, or other
uses.
In contrast, animals that are raised by humans are called livestock, except
those that are kept as pets. Microbes, such as bacteria or viruses, are
referred to as cultures.
Microbes are not typically grown for food, but are rather used to alter food.
For example, bacteria are used to ferment milk to produce yogurt.
Major crops
sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans,
hay, potatoes and cotton.
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Vocabulary
Harvested:
Gather crops, bring in, take in;
Livestock: Farm animals regarded as an asset.
Yogurt: A semi-solid sourish food prepared from milk fermented by added bacteria.
Agronomists: Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using
plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation. Agronomy encompasses work in the
areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science.
Staple: a piece of thin wire with two short right-angled end pieces which are driven by a
stapler through sheets of paper to fasten them together.
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Grains
Grains are small, hard, dry seeds, with or without attached hulls or fruit layers, harvested for
human or animal consumption. Agronomists also call the plants producing such seeds "grain
crops". The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals such as wheat and rye,
and legumes such as beans and soybeans.
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After being harvested, dry grains are more durable than other staple foods such
as starchy fruits like plantains and breadfruit and tubers like sweet
potatoes and cassava.
This durability has made grains well suited to industrial agriculture, since they can
be mechanically harvested, transported by rail or ship, stored for long periods
in silos, and milled for flour or pressed for oil.
Thus, major global commodity markets exist
for canola, maize, rice, soybeans, wheat, and other grains but not for tubers,
vegetables, or other crops.
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Fish harvesting
Marine Harvest ASA, Pan Fish prior to February 6, 2007, is a Norwegian seafood
company with operations in a number of countries around the world.
The company's primary interest is the production, processing and sale of farmed
salmon, the operations of which are focused on Norway, Scotland, Canada, the Faroe
Islands, Ireland and Chile.
The group has a share of between 25 and 30% of the
global salmon and trout market, making it the world's largest company in the sector.
Marine Harvest also owns a 'value added processing' unit, which prepares and
distributes a range of seafood products, and a number of smaller divisions.
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Fish harvesting
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Comprehension
1) What is harvesting?
2) What are grains?
3) Name any 5 Major crops
4) ___________ and ___________, making it the world's largest
company in the marine harvesting sector.
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