Traditional Farming System In Africa Reading Answer
IELTS Academic Reading PassageThe margins of dambos are sometimes planted to local varieties of rice during the rainyseason, and areas adjacent to vegetables irrigated with water from the dambo during thedry season. The extent of cultivation is very limited, no doubt because the growing of crops under dambo conditions calls for a great deal of skill. Near towns some of the vegetable produce is sold in local markets.
G.
Fishing has long provided a much needed protein supplement to the diet of Luapulans, as well as being the one substantial source of cash. Much fish is dried for sale to areas away from the main waterways. The Mweru and Bangweulu Lake Basins are the main areas of year-round fishing, but the Luapula River is also exploited during the latter part of the dry season. Several previously abundant and desirable species, such as the Luapula salmon or mpumbu (Labeo altivelis) and pale (Sarotherodon machochir) have all but disappeared from Lake Mweru, apparently due to mismanagement.
H.
Fishing has always been a far more remunerative activity in Luapula that crop husbandry. A fisherman may earn more in a week than a bean or maize grower in a whole season. I sometimes heard claims that the relatively high earnings to be obtained from fishing induced an ‘easy come, easy go’ outlook among Luapulan men. On the other hand, someone who secures good but erratic earnings may feel that their investment in an economically productive activity is not worthwhile because Luapulans fail to cooperate well in such activities. Besides, a fisherman with spare cash will find little in the way of working equipment to spend his money on. Better spend one’s money in the bars and have a good time!
I.
Only small numbers of cattle or oxen are kept in the province owing to the prevalence of the tse-tse fly. For the few herds, the dambos provide subsistence grazing during the dry season. The absence of animal draft power greatly limits peoples’ ability to plough and cultivate land: a married couple can rarely manage to prepare by hand-hoeing. Most people keep freely roaming chickens and goats. These act as a reserve for bartering, but may also be occasionally slaughtered for ceremonies or for entertaining important visitors. These animals are not a regular part of most peoples’ diet.
J.
Citemene has been an ingenious system for providing people with seasonal production of high quality cereals and vegetables in regions of acid, heavily leached soils. Nutritionally, the most serious deficiency was that of protein. This could at times be alleviated when fish was available, provided that cultivators lived near the Valley and could find the means of bartering for dried fish. The citemene/fishing system was well adapted to the ecology of the miombo regions and sustainable for long periods, but only as long as human population densities stayed at low levels. Although population densities are still much lower than in several countries of South-East Asia, neither the fisheries nor the forests and woodlands of Luapula are capable, with unmodified traditional practices, of supporting the people in a sustainable manner.
Overall, people must learn to intensify and diversify their productive systems while yet ensuring that these systems will remain productive in the future, when even more people will need food. Increasing overall production offood, though a vast challenge in itself, will not be enough, however. At the same time storage and distribution systems must allow everyone access to at least a moderate share of the total.
Questions 1-4
Complete the sentences below with words taken from Reading Passage!.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet.
1.  In Luapula land allocation is in accordance with 1……………….Â
2.  The citemene system provides the land with 2……………………..  where crops are planted.
3.  During the second season, the last planted crop is 3………………..Â
4.  Under suitable conditions, fruit trees are planted near 4…………………Â
Questions 5-8
Classify the following items with the correct description. Write your answers in boxes 5-8 on your answer sheet
A. fish
B. oxen
C. goats
5……………………Â be used in some unusual occasions, such as celebrations
6 ……………….. cannot thrive for being affected by the pests
7 ………………….. be the largest part of creating profit
8Â ………………….. be sold beyond the local area
Questions 9-12
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? In boxes 9-12 on your answer sheet, write
TRUEÂ if the statement is true
FALSEÂ if the statement is false
NOT GIVENÂ if the information is not given in the passageÂ
9Â …………………… People rarely use animals to cultivate land
10Â ………………….. When it is a busy time, children usually took part in the labor force
11Â …………………Â The local residents eat goats on a regular time
12Â …………………… Though citemene has been a sophisticated system, it could not provide enough protein
Questions 13
Choose the correct letter. A, B, C or D.
Write the correct letter in the box 13 on your answer sheet.
What is the writer’s opinion about the traditional ways of practices?Â
A Â They can supply the nutrition that people need
B They are not capable of providing adequate support to the populationÂ
C Â They are productive systems that need no moreÂ
D Â They will be easily modified in the future
Solution For: Traditional Farming System In Africa Reading Answer
1. need | 8. A |
2. ashes | 9. TRUE |
3. cassava | 10. NOT GIVEN |
4. houses | 11. TRUE |
5. c | 12. TRUE |
6. B | 13. B |
7. A |
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