Farming in portugal

In the primary sector in Portugal, the main products are: cereals (wheat, corn, rice, rye, oats) potato and tomato wine and olive oil fruit trees (grapes, oranges, peaches, apples, pears, chestnuts and figs) vegetables sugar cotton In Azores In Azores Islands they grow... Tobacco Sugar beet wheat corn In Azores II In Azores island they grow... potato taro tea In Madeira In Madeira Island they grow... Vines sugarcane sweet potato passion fruit mango Complete the text. 1. Growing plants for food is all over our country, in smaller or bigger proportions. If crop farming is small, it is called subsistence farming. If it is in large proportions it is called commercial farming.2. Farmers use fertilisers to grow plants - they spray the plants with pesticides to stop insects harming the crops. The use of tractors and heavy machines to fertilise the soil and harvest the crops is very important. It saves time and energy. Some crops are grown all year round in greenhouses. They help control the amount of water, temperature and light. This is particularly important in commercial farming.3. Some farmers don’t use chemicals or fertilisers. This is called organic farming. It produces less food, but it is healthier. This the case of some subsistence farming. Animal FarmingComplete the text. This is an economic activity of the primarysector. Farm animals are called livestock. They include cattle (cows, bulls), sheep, pigs and poultry (chicken, turkey). Farmers breed them for their meat, milk, eggsand skins.Stockbreeding can be intensive farming. The animals live in pens and barns. Farmers give them hay or dry feed to eat. In free-range farming the animals live in the open and eat grass or grain. There is also biological breeding farming ….. Can you guess?