Crop

Hello my friends today I am going to discuss with you about the crop. Many of us doesn't know the meaning and important of the word crop.

Crop is regarded as the edible portion ( grains ) that is produced after farming. While farming is the act of putting all the required materials in the farm, In order to cultivate a crops ( grains ) at the end.

The crop production can be carried out in either rainy or dry season. In the rainy season, the crops are being produced with the help of the rainfall from Almighty Allah. While in dry season, crops can be produced through irrigation system, that involve many artificial activities to take place.

Bothe rainy and dry season crop production has its negative and positive effects. For instance, among the positive effects crop production in rainy season include :

1. There will be no cost to get the rainfall

1. The plants enjoy the rainfall more, because it's natural

1. The rainfall is clean, free from dirty materials such as heavy metals, pollution etc.

2. The cost of production is leas, compared to that of dry season.

While the negative effect during rainy season is that :

1. You can not control the amount of water in the area.

1. There might be the possibilities of flooding.

1. It has specific time to carried out, mainly in rainy season etc.

2. Some crop can not be produced in rainy season, such crop include wheat etc.

While crop production in dry season can help the farmers or society in different ways such as :

1. The amount of water can be controlled.

2. Is not common to see flooding in an area that is known for irrigation system.

3. Can help in producing different crops, even the ones that can not be produced during rainy season, example include wheat etc.

4. You can carried it anytime you want, provided you have the means to do so.

While it also have it's disadvantages during and after carrying out, such disadvantages include :

1. High cost of production, compared to that of rainy season.

2. Heavy metals, polluted water, can all be taken to the plants. And this can help in causing another problems to the crops and the consumer at the end.

3. Is not easy to carried without high capital.

4. It's suitable for some places while not much suitable for other places.

The crops we are talking about include rice, maize, wheat, soya, tomatoes, pepper, beans, cawpea, groundnut, guinea corn etc.

Such crops listed above have the advantages for all of us in one way or the other. Such advantages include

1. They are source of energy to man : after ingesting those crops, they will under go digestion ( The breakdown of the large molecules of food in to smaller ones for easy body absorption ) and this leads to the production of energy. The crops known in providing energy include maize, rice, potatoes etc.

2. They help in providing the protein : Some of these crops help in providing protein, so as to help the body in different ways, such crops include soy beans, cawpea etc.

3. They help in overcoming hunger : When you are hungry, and you consume one of those crops, they will help you overcome the hunger.

4. They production is source of income : If you engaged in their productions, it will help you in sourcing money for present and future use.

5. Source of employment : The labourers, producers, middlemen, wholesalers and other people involved in their business makes them their source of employment.

6. Improve economy of the country : Any country that can not produced enough crop for it's people, definitely it will be in trouble within short or long time. But if you produced more, apart from getting enough to sustain the people, you can even export it to the other countries and get money.

7. Improve security : Without much explanation, any country that have enough food and social amenities, that country will have maximum security within it's people.

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