Вопрос № 884514 - Английский язык

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Australia has a long tradition of sheep production. 1_______. Some pure Spanish Merinos were introduced several years later and cross-breeding experiments were carried out. 2_______.
Stock-raising plays the leading role in the country’s agriculture. There are about 140 million head of sheep and over 26 million head of cattle in Australia. 3_______.
Sheep and cattle are raised in all the Australian states. New South Wales and Western Australia together raise more than half the country’s sheep and produce about half its wool. Queensland and New South Wales raise more than half of Australian’s beef cattle. 4_______.

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1_______ has long been the major economic activity of the South, although this dominance has become less in recent years. The moist, warm climate contributes to the extensive growth of tobacco in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The tobacco grown here is of high quality, and the tradition of growing it goes down to the early days of colonization. The Red Indians taught the white settlers the way to grow 2_______ and they made tremendous profit out of this crop, exporting it to Europe.
Cotton is another important crop for 3_______ farmers, especially in Arkansas and Mississippi. Peanuts 4_______ in Georgia and citrus fruits, vegetables in Florida. Soybeans is an important crop in Arkansas.

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Fertilizer can be distributed during the winter or shortly before seeding time. Commercial fertilizers are commonly distributed, along with seeds, by drills and planters. Manure is distributed most efficiently by a manure spreader, which is a wagon equipped with a bottom conveyor to carry the fertilizer back to a beater attachment, which disintegrates it and then scatters it on the ground.
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After crops have begun to grow, a cultivator is used to destroy weeds and loosen and aerate the soil. A flame weeder, which produces a hot-air blast, can be used to destroy weeds growing around crops, such as cotton, that have stems of tough bark. The weeds are vulnerable to the hot air, but the tough stems protect the crops from damage. Chemical herbicides applied in the form of a spray or as granules are used extensively for weed control.
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Insecticides for pest control are applied to soil and crops in the form of granules, dust, or liquid sprays. A variety of mechanical spraying and dusting equipment is used to spread chemicals on crops and fields; the machinery may be self-powered, or drawn and powered by a tractor. In areas where large crops of vegetables and grain are grown, aircraft are sometimes used to dust or spray pesticides.
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Chemical pesticides are used in nearly all farming operations undertaken in developed countries. However, increasing concern over the harmful effects that pesticides may have on the environment has led to the use of alternative forms of pest control. For example, farmers use crop rotation to prevent pests that feed on a certain crop. Also, certain pests are controlled by introducing an organism that damages or kills the pests, but leaves the crops unharmed. Finally, some crops are being genetically engineered to be more resistant to pests.
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Some crops are being genetically engineered to be more resistant to …