9086501289 | Agribusiness | agriculture conducted on commercial principles, especially using advanced technology. | 0 | |
9086501290 | agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | 1 | |
9086501291 | cereal grain | a grass yielding grain for food | 2 | |
9086501292 | chaff | husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing | 3 | |
9086501293 | combine | a machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field | 4 | |
9086501294 | Commercial Agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. | 5 | |
9086501295 | crop | Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season. | 6 | |
9086501296 | crop rotation | the system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land | 7 | |
9086501297 | Desertification | degradation of land especially in seminars areas primarily because of human actions like excessive planting | 8 | |
9086501298 | double cropping | harvesting twice a year from the same field | 9 | |
9086501299 | grain | seed of a cereal grass | 10 | |
9086501300 | green revolution | rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology | 11 | |
9086501301 | horticulture | the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers | 12 | |
9086501302 | hull | the outer covering of a seed | 13 | |
9086501303 | intensive subsistence agriculture | a form in which farmers must expend a large amount of effort to produce the maximum yield of land | 14 | |
9086501304 | milkshed | the area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied | 15 | |
9086501305 | paddy | Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah. | 16 | |
9086501306 | pastoral nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. | 17 | |
9086501307 | pasture | Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing. | 18 | |
9086501308 | plantation | a large farm in tropical areas that specializes in the production of one of two crops for sale to a MCD | 19 | |
9086501309 | Prime Agricultural Land | The most productive farmland. | 20 | |
9086501310 | Ranching | A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area. | 21 | |
9086501311 | Reaper | A machine that cuts grain standing in the field. | 22 | |
9086501312 | Ridge Tillage | system of planting crops on ridge tops to reduce farm production costs; promotes soil conservation | 23 | |
9086501313 | sawah | a flooded field for growing rice | 24 | |
9086501314 | shifting cultivation | clearing forests to plant fields for a few years and then abandoning them | 25 | |
9086501315 | slash and burn agriculture | a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | 26 | |
9086501316 | spring wheat | wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer | 27 | |
9086501317 | subsistence agriculture | level of farming in which a person raises only enough food to feed his or her family | 28 | |
9086501318 | sustainable agriculture | Long-term productive farming methods that are environmentally safe. | 29 | |
9086501319 | swidden | a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning | 30 | |
9086501320 | thresh | to beat out grain from stalks by trampling it | 31 | |
9086501321 | transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. | 32 | |
9086501322 | truck farming | commercial gardening and fruit farming | 33 | |
9086501323 | wet rice | Rice planted on dryland in a nursery, then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth. | 34 | |
9086501324 | winnow | to remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind | 35 | |
9086501325 | winter wheat | wheat planted in the autumn and harvested in the early summer | 36 |
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