ENGLISH FOR AGRIBUSINESS

MID-SEMESTER TEST-PART 2

Name : Mukti Mulya Sanjaya

Student number : D1B021039

A. USING READING STRATEGY

World agriculture in the 21st century will face three major challenges: how to feed a
growing world population, how to contribute to reducing the still–high prevalence of rural
poverty in the world, and how to respond to increased concerns about managing the natural
resource base.
In the developing world, poverty remains a predominantly rural challenge. To meet
these challenges, we must improve the productivity and profitability of millions upon
millions of small farmers and promote employment–intensive rural growth.
For this to occur, farmers will need new, appropriate technology. Here the role of
biotechnology should be critical if it can be applied to the crops of complex farming systems
in the tropics and sub-tropics.
Profitability will come from increased market orientation as farmers produce food
and fibre for domestic and international markets. Here the critical issues are appropriate
policies and incentives.
If we can help improve farmers’ wellbeing, we will also have the additional benefit of
encouraging farmers to be more effective stewards of the world’s natural resources.
Therefore, the issue of improving the welfare of rural communities, by improving the
profitability of agriculture, is a triple-win situation. It contributes to poverty reduction; it
contributes to food security and it contributes to improved natural resource management.

1. What question comes to your mind before reading the text?

Answer: Question in my mind before I read the text is What will do understand from
what I will read, what is the main Idea, and what picture will author painting in my head
when I start reading.

2. What is your purpose for reading the text?

Answer: To search for simple information, to learn from texts, to integrate information,
to write or search for information needed for writing, to critique text, for general
comprehension.

3. What is the text about?

Answer: Maintaining and increasing potential considering the challenges of global
agriculture in the 21st

4. What question comes to your mind after reading the text?

Answer: Has Indonesia carried out a program to face the challenges of global agriculture
in the 21st
5. Create the suitable title of the text.
Answer: Challenges to World Agriculture in the 21st Century

6. What is intensive rural growth?

Answer: Intensive rural growth Is the growth of farmers that very fast to maintain the
agricultural sector

7. What is an example of new, appropriate technology farmers need?

Answer: harvest automation, autonomous tractors, seeding and weeding, and drones.
Farm automation technology addresses major issues like a rising global population, farm
labor shortages, and changing consumer preferences

8. Pick out a simple sentence from the text. Underline its subject.
Answer: World agriculture in the 21 st century will face three major challenges

9. Pick out a compound sentence from the text. Underline its subject.
Answer: In the developing world, poverty remains a predominantly rural challenge

10. Pick out a complex sentence from the text. Why do you think it is a complex sentence?
Answer: To meet these challenges, we must improve the productivity and profitability of
millions upon millions of small farmers and promote employment–intensive rural
growth.
Why? Because it contains with one independent clause and at least one dependent
clause.

B. USING CORRECT PUNCTUATION

Add capital letters, full stops, question marks, or any other appropriate punctuations so
that it forms a correct and meaningful sentence.

1. mrs dora wilson is a lecturer at jambi university

2. where is the faculty of agriculture
3. mr martin smith taught us toefl last year
4. it is boring he said

Answer:
1. Mrs. Dora Wilson is a lecturer at Jambi University
2. Where is the Faculty of Agriculture?
3. Mr. Martin Smith taught us toefl last year.
4. It is boring, he said.