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  1. Use the verbs in brackets in the Present, Past or Future Simple.

1. Economic growth of any country (to depend) on the development of agriculture. 2. Agriculture (to supply) people with more food and clothing and industry with raw materials next year.3. It (to be) many thousand years ago.4. Now crop production and animal husbandry (to be) highly developed branches of agriculture. 5. Farm mechanization (to help) farmers obtain the highest yields of good quality last year. 6. Farm animals (to be) highly important sources of food for man.7. Applying manure, farmers (to improve) the physical condition of the soil next year.

III. Make the sentences of the exercise II negative. Wordlist

  1. to devote присвячувати посвящать

  2. drugs ліки лекарства

  3. descriptions опис описания

  4. to expande розширювати расширять

  5. plant breeding розмноження рослин размножение растений

  6. horticulture садівництво садоводство

  7. ornamental plants декоративні рослини декоративные растения

  8. field crops польові культури полевые культуры

  9. distinction різниця различие

  10. precise точний точный

  11. forestry лісівництво лесоводство

  12. recreation відновлення рекреация,

восстановление

  1. timber деревина древесина

  2. reforestation відновлення лісу лесовозобновление

  3. tillage обробка грунту обработка почвы

  4. crop rotation сівозміна севооборот

  5. breeding розмноження, селекція размножение, селекция

  6. weed control боротьба з бур’янами борьба с сорняками

  7. pasture пасовисько пастбище

    1. Read the text and find out the place of agronomy between other practical aspects of botany botany and agronomy

Botany, science devoted to the study of plants. Botany, microbiology, and zoology together compose the science of biology. Man’s earliest concern with plants was with their practical uses, i.e., for fuel, clothing, shelter, and, particularly, food and drugs. The establishment of botany as an intellectual science came in classical times. In the 4th cent. D.C., Aristotel and his pupil Theophrastus worked out descriptions and principles of plant types and functions that remained the prototype for botanical observation for 1,000 years.

Modern botany has expanded into all areas of biology, including molecular biology. Perhaps most significant was the work of Mendel in plant breeding at the middle (1859) of the 19th cent., from which grew the science of genetics. The various practical aspects of experimental botany have developed into specific scientific disciplines (e.g. agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, and forestry).

Horticulture [Lat. Hortus=garden], science and art of gardening and of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants. Horticulture generally refers to small-scale gardening, and agriculture to the growing of field crops, usually on a large scale, although the distinction is not always precise (for example, market gardening could be classed either way).

Forestry, the management of forest lands for wood, water, wildlife, forage, and recreation. Because the major economic importance of the forest lies in wood and wood products, forestry has been chiefly concerned with timber management, especially reforestation, maintenance of the extant forest stands at prime condition, and fire control.

Agronomy, branch of agriculture dealing with various physical and biological factors- including soil management, tillage, crop rotation, breeding, weed control, and climate- related to crop production. Agronomy commonly refers to field crops, e.g. wheat, rice, corn, sorghum, soybean, cotton, as well as pasture, sugar, and forage crops; while horticulture is concerned with fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants; forestry with forest trees; and agroforestry, with mixtures of trees with other crops.