This document discusses farming techniques and their influence on agricultural patterns. It describes the processes of ploughing, sowing, and harvesting. Ploughing involves loosening the soil to bring nutrients to the surface and allow water to reach seeds. Sowing is placing seeds in ploughed soil and covering them. Harvesting occurs when crops are fully grown and ready to be collected from fields. The document also contrasts old and new farming methods, noting that old farms were smaller and relied more on human and animal labor while new farms are larger and use machinery.

2. *objective
*The environmental technological, economic
and social factors which influence the
distribution of different types and systems of
farming
*The factors which influence the patterns of
agricultural output and trade.
*New agricultural techniques which increase
yields.

3. *Outcome
*ALL: all students are able to make simple
identification as well as identify factors that
influence the patterns of agriculture.
*MOST: students are able to work on skill of
interpretation.
*SOME: students are able to develop a
sustainable plan.

4. What is Ploughing?
• Ploughing is when you dig the soil making it loose.
• This brings the nutrients (all the goods things in soil) to
the top and pushes the bad things (like weeds and
seeds and old soil) to the bottom.
• Loosening the soil also means that water can get to the
seeds instead of running off the top.

7. What is Sowing?
• sowing is when the farmers put seeds in the soil they
have ploughed.
• The seeds are then covered with soil and watered.
• The seeds are then left to grow.
• It needs three things to help it grow; water, soil,
sunlight.

10. What is Harvesting?
• Plants have matured when they are fully grown and
ready to eat.
• When the crop has matured its get collected from the
fields and this is harvesting.
• It then gets graded (sorting the good crop from the
bad) and packed ready for people to buy and eat.

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15. Old Farming Methods
*Mostly small sized
farms.
*People and animals are
used to do a lot of the
work.
*Old farms have a small
yield (this means they
produce less crops).
*Old farms use less
technology so a lot more
of their plants die.
New Farming Methods
*Very large Farms.
*Machines used to do the
ploughing, planting and
harvesting.
*New farms have a big
yield (this means they
produce a lot of crops).
*New farms use a lot of
technology so the risk of
their crop failing is not as
high