MPANSHYA SECONDARY SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY FIELD PROJECT

NAME…...……………MWIINGA SMO MALAMBO

GRADE……………......................12A
EXAM NUMBER………………………….
TEACHER………………..... C SILAVWE
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• First of all I give more thanks to god almighty for efficient
blessing on brain enhancement to tackle this project plus
more gratitude to my teacher fellow student and to my
family for the moral and financial support administration to
me
• Thank You

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 DECLARATION
I MWINGA MALAMBO therefore declare that I
wrote this field project and researched to acquire
the whole information in this project on my own I
declare that this field project has never been
marked by any examiner or handed over to any
examination centre for verification of any kind.

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 Dedication
This field project is dedicated to my family friends
including the farmer and tourist for their
cooperation and support to me during the visit
of the project in different districts of Zambia not
forgetting my very good friend of mine for help
in my research on this field project.

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 Table of content
1.TITLE
2.LOCATION
3.BACKGROUND
4.INTRODUCATION
5.DATA COLLECTION
6.DATA PRESENTATION
7.AIM
8.METHODOLOGY
9.PROBLEM STATEMENT
10.PROBLEM DEFINATION
11.OBJECTIVE
12.PROBLEMS
13.LIMITATIONS
14.RECOMMENDATIONS
15.CONCLUSION
16.REFERENCES

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 TITLE
• FARMING CULTIVATION DISADVATAGE AND
ADVATAGES 0F FARMING CROPS IN ZAMBIA

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 NITRODUCATION
Farming refers to the growing of crops and rearing of animals, farming is an activity practiced worldwide and it can be either be for home consumption[subsistence]or
commercial arable farming involves growing of crops such as cereals and roots crops it includes the following
1.HORTICULTURE
Which is the growing of fruits vegetables and flower for decoration
2.Vittculture
The growing or cultivation of grapes
.pastrol farming which is the rearing of livestock
.ranching the rearing of animals for mea production
.game ranching which refers to the rearing of wild animals such as lion zebra and impalas

Additionally farming or agriculture at large can be clasisfild into various type which one
1.Primitive substance farming or agriculture
This type of farming is practiced by local people with primitive implements
A farmer clears a new piece of land and after a few year of cultivation on th e some land the farmer shift to another piece of land this is sometime called shifting cultivation
There are several types of shifting or traditional types of shifting cultivation namely
.Mambwe or fundika system
.The lozi system[it comprises of five different techniques namely
-litopa
-mazulu
-lishango
-matema

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 INTRO
• In all these are some of the traditional farming practiced done locally in zambia and below are some of factors discused in details
• 1.climate which happen to be the greatest deciding factor rainfall and tempreture are important element affecting crops like rice e.t.cthat require a lot of
water
• 2Relief: the increase in altitude exclude crops suited for flat land to grow
• 3.soil which makes or form the physical support for plants also affecting farming depending the type of soil characteristics or ability to absorb water
• 4.Biotic factor which include agents like weed parasite and other various dieases
• 5.Economics factor that are highly related to the cast of raninng and maintaining a farm,

1 Intensive Substance farming Or Agriculture

• ~It is also called peasent farming but intensively done ,

• ~there is mostly little or no excess produce for export hence some geograghers refer to this type of farming as oriental agriculture or farming

• 2. plantation agriculture or farming

• ~this is the cultivation of tropical raw materials in large estates or plantation barely or purely for export,
• 3.Extensive machanised cereal cultivation.
• ~AII stage of cultivation under this type of farming from ploughing to the harvesting are done by machines and the total production is great,
• 4.Pastoral farming.
• ~This refers to the commercial domestication of animals for either wool or meat production

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 INTRO
• N:B Transhumance involves involves the driving of cattle from vaileys to the plateau in summer in search for
pasture
• 5.Mixed farming ,
• ~It is a combination of arable farming and animals husbandly fruits vegetables are raised side by side with
livestock

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 ADVANTAGES OF FARMING
• SORUCE OF Food
• It is the major source livelihood for over 1million of the world population
• It produces fibres and raw materials for factories on which a large portion of the remaining people depend,s
• It promote trade i.e fruits,vegetables,clothes,tools and other agriculture products are sold at trading centre e.g
chirundu and nakonde
• Farming on large scale creators employment for those working the fields,

• DISADVANTAGE OF FARMING.

• Lack of useful skills such as traditional chitemene that involves burning trees destroys the land and home for
those in soil.
• Cutting or clearing trees couse deforestation that leads to soil erosion.
• Pollution due to burning of trees

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 CHALLENGAS
• Though farming is an ancient way of survival and is great significancy below are
some of the challenges it brings:

• _Soil Erosion
• _Displacement natural home of plant and homes
• _Poor distribution of inputs affecting especially small scales famers
• _Poor marketing of produced crops
• -Low yields due to undelivered inputs.
• All in this are some of the challenges affecting both the eviroment and production.

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 RECCOMMENDATION
In order to reduce or minimize on the challenges the following must be
put in place
• ADEQUATELY giving farmers proper farming skills
• Contour ploughing to return moistain and avoid soil erosion
• Crop rotation to restore and place nutrients
• Irrigation supplying addition water especially during droughts
• Organic farming use of leguminous plants to fertilise soil e.g velvet
beans,and ther leguments
• Therefore with this in place the farming sector will be positively elevate.

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 CONLUSION
All in all despite farming being highly associated
with things like soil erision and other related
constraints or challenges we cannot do without
farming the best we can do is practice farming in
effective ways.