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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