this lesson explain about the agricultural system starting from input to outputs and also farming types.

1. Food Production
Mr. Yonas Gemeda
October 2019
Addis Ababa

2. Learning outcomes
• By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
• Describe and explain the main features of
an agricultural system: inputs, processes
and outputs
• Demonstrate knowledge of farming types

3. Agricultural System
• Farming can be seen as a system which
has inputs, processes and outputs.

4. What does system mean?
• System is a set of interrelated parts or
components that are working together
towards some kind of process.

5. Agriculture as a system
Input processes Outputs

6. Inputs in farming
• These can be either :
Natural
Human
Inputs

7. Natural or physical inputs
Natural
inputs
Climate
Drainage
Soils
Relief

8. Economic and social inputs
Technology
Labor
Money
Human
inputs

9. Cont’d
Artificial
inputs
Cost and
maintenance
Transport
Markets
Subsidies

10. Process in farming
• The process includes all the activities that take
place on farm:
On arable
farm
Ploughing
Harrowing
Planting
Controlling
Harvesting
On pastoral
farm
Grazing
Calving
Lambing
Milking
Slaughter
Shearing
Producing fodder crops

11. Outputs in farming
Crops
• Cereals, vegetables, fruit, and
flower
Animals
• Cattle, lambs, pigs, chickens, and
turkey
Animal
products
• Meat, milk, wool, skin, eggs

12. Farming types
• Farming types can be classified in several
ways:
Specialization
Mixed
PastoralArable

13. Cont’d
Economic
status
Commercial
Subsistence
Intensity
Extensive
Intensive

14. Cont’d
Ownership
SedentaryShifting