Unit 1 Agriculture 1
Text A An Overview of Agriculture 3
Exercises 9
Text B Green Revolution 13
Exercises 19
Unit 2 Plant Protection 23
Text A Plant Protection 25
Exercises 30
Text B Pesticide Residue 34
Exercises 41
Unit 3 Animal Husbandry 45
Text A Antibiotics in Animals 47
Exercises 51
Text B A Dilemma for Organic Animal Husbandry 55
Exercises 59
Unit 4 Horticulture 63
Text A Drought-Tolerant Corn 65
Exercises 70
Text B Seeding Plant Diversity 73
Exercises 77
Unit 5 Agriculture＆Environment 81
Text A Environmental Impact of Agriculture 83
Exercises 88
Text B Agriculture's Environmental Performance—What Role for Agri-environmental Policy? 92
Exercises 97
Unit 6 Food Science 101
Text A Genetically Modified Food 103
Exercises 107
Text B Food waste 110
Exercises 114
Unit 7 Agricultural Mechanization 118
Text A Robots to Revolutionize Farming,Ease Labor Woes 121
Exercises 126
Text B Mechanization of India's Farms 130
Exercises 136
Unit 8 Cooperatives 141
Text A Cooperatives 143
Exercises 147
Text B Agricultural Cooperative 152
Exercises 156
Unit 9 Agricultural Economy 160
Text A Introduction to Agricultural Economics 163
Exercises 169
Text B New Focus for Agribusiness and Food System in China 173
Exercises 179
Unit 10 Agricultural Tourism 183
Text A Agri-tourism 185
Exercises 189
Text B "Nong jia le"Tourism in China 194
Exercises 199
Appendix Ⅰ 203
Appendix Ⅱ 222