Food — Chapter Summary
ICSE · Class 10 · Environmental Science
Summary of Food for ICSE Class 10 Environmental Science. Part of the ICSE Class 10 Environmental Science syllabus.
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Overview
Food security depends on producing enough food while protecting soil, water, forests, and biodiversity. Sustainable agriculture aims at long-term food production without damaging natural resources. The chapter covers major farming methods, pest control, biotechnology, organic fertilizers, gene banks
Key Concepts
Sustainable agriculture means successful management
Sustainable agriculture means successful management of resources for agriculture to satisfy changing human needs while maintaining or improving the qu
Integrated Pest Management is the application
Integrated Pest Management is the application of several different insect control methods to maintain a pest population below economically damaging le
Genetically Modified Organisms are living organisms
Genetically Modified Organisms are living organisms that have been genetically engineered by insertion of a foreign gene called a transgene. Transgene
Major concerns about GM foods include
Major concerns about GM foods include environmental hazards, economic concerns, and human health risks. Environmental hazards include out-crossing, wh
High yielding varieties are crop plants
High yielding varieties are crop plants produced by manipulating genes to give desired characteristics such as high yield and pest resistance. They us
Learning Objectives
- Understand the meaning and need of sustainable agriculture
- Explain integrated pest management and its steps
- Describe genetically modified organisms and their environmental risks
- Compare high yielding varieties, hybrid varieties, and traditional crops
- Explain mixed cropping, intercropping, crop rotation, agroforestry, polyculture, and polyvarietal cultivation
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