Question

Выпишите из текста глаголы-сказуемые, определите их видовременные формы:
By disease in plants is meant some disturbance in the normal life-processes which affects either a particular organ or the entire plant, and which sometimes leads to premature death. Cultivated plants are usually more liable to disease than wild plants. The losses caused by plant diseases are sometimes enormous, and cultivation of certain crops in some countries had been abandoned in the past owing to the ravages of disease.

Answer 1

is meant Present Simple Passive
affects Present Simple
leads Present Simple
are Present Simple 
are Present Simple
had been abandoned Past Perfect Passive