Harvesting maize and other cereals
Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
Carry out the dry-maize sequence - pick, dry, shell, store - and compare wheat, rice and sorghum, keeping grain dry to avoid mould.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
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