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| 52602744 | Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations. | |
| 52602745 | Agriculture | The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain. | |
| 52602746 | Cereal Grain | A grass yielding grain for food. | |
| 52602747 | chaff | Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing. | |
| 52602748 | combine | A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans gram while moving over a field. | |
| 52602749 | commercial agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm. | |
| 52602750 | crop | Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season. | |
| 52602751 | crop rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. | |
| 52602752 | desertification | the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert | |
| 52602753 | double cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same field. | |
| 52602754 | grain | Seed of a cereal grass. | |
| 52602755 | green revolution | Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers. | |
| 52602756 | horticulture | The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. | |
| 52602757 | hull | The outer covering of a seed. | |
| 52602758 | intensive subsistence agriculture | A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land. | |
| 52602759 | milkshed | The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied. | |
| 52602760 | paddy | Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah. | |
| 52602761 | pasture | Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing. | |
| 52602762 | pastoral nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. | |
| 52602763 | 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. | |
| 52602764 | prime agricultural land | the most productive farmland | |
| 52602765 | ranching | A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area. | |
| 52602766 | reaper | A machine that cuts grain standing in the field. | |
| 52602767 | ridge tillage | System of planting crops on ridge tops, in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation. | |
| 52602768 | sawah | A flooded field for growing rice | |
| 52602769 | seed agriculture | Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds, which result from sexual fertilization. | |
| 52602770 | shifting cultivation | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period. | |
| 52602771 | slash and burn agriculture | Another name for shifring cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris. | |
| 52602772 | spring wheat | Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer. | |
| 52602773 | subsistence agriculture | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family | |
| 52602774 | 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 in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides. | |
| 52602775 | swidden | A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning. | |
| 52602776 | thresh | To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it. | |
| 52602777 | transhumace | The seasoned migration of livestock between mountains and low land pastures. | |
| 52602778 | truck farming | Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning batering or the exchange of commodities. | |
| 52602779 | vegetative planting | reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants | |
| 52602780 | wet rice | Rice planted on dryland in a nursery, then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth. | |
| 52602781 | winnow | To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind. | |
| 52602782 | winter wheat | Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the summer. |
