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| 20525111 | Agribusiness | the system of commercial farming found in the US and MDC's | |
| 20525112 | Agriculture | deliberate modification of earths surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain | |
| 20525113 | Cereal grain | a grass yielding grain or food | |
| 20525114 | Chaff | separation of husks from the seeds by threshing | |
| 20525115 | Combine | performs three tasks in one operation (reaping, threshing, cleaning) | |
| 20525116 | Commercial agriculture | agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm | |
| 20525117 | Crop | grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season | |
| 20525118 | Crop Rotation | the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil | |
| 20525119 | Desertification | farmland is abandoned for lack of water; especially in semiarid regions, humans actions are causing land to deteriorate to a desert-like condition | |
| 20525120 | Double cropping | land is used even more intensely in parts of Asia by obtaining tow harvests per year from one field | |
| 20525121 | Grain | the seed from various grasses (wheat, corn, oats, barely, rice, millet, & ect) | |
| 20525122 | Green Revolution | the invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970's and 1980's | |
| 20525123 | Horticulture | the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers—and tree crops form the commercial base of Mediterranean farming | |
| 20525124 | Hull | outer covering of rice that is removed by mortar and pestle | |
| 20525125 | Intensive subsistence farming | a form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parle of land | |
| 20525126 | Milkshed | the area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied | |
| 20525127 | Paddy | malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah | |
| 20525128 | Pastoral nomadism | a form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. | |
| 20525129 | Pasture | grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing | |
| 20525130 | Plantation | a large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country | |
| 20525131 | Prime agricultural land | the most productive farmland | |
| 20525132 | Ranching | a form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over and extensive area | |
| 20525133 | Reaper | a machine that cuts grain standing in the field | |
| 20525134 | Ridge Tillage | system of planting crops on the ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation | |
| 20525135 | Sawah | a flooded field for growing rice | |
| 20525136 | Seed Agriculture | reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds, which result from sexual fertilization | |
| 20525137 | Shifting Cultivation | a form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period | |
| 20525138 | Slash-and-Burn Agriculture | another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris | |
| 20525139 | Spring wheat | wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer | |
| 20525140 | Subsistence Agriculture | agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmers family | |
| 20525141 | Sustainable Agriculture | farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides | |
| 20525142 | Swidden | a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning | |
| 20525143 | Thresh | to beat out grain from stalks by trampling it | |
| 20525144 | Transhumance | the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures | |
| 20525145 | Truck farming | commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities | |
| 20525146 | Vegetative planting | reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants | |
| 20525147 | Wet rice | rice planted on dryland in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth | |
| 20525148 | Winnow | to remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind | |
| 20525149 | Winter wheat | wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer |
