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| 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 |
| Cereal Grain | A grass yielding grain for food |
| Chaff | Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing |
| Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations |
| Combine | A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grains while moving over a field |
| Commercial Agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm |
| Crop | Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season |
| Crop Rotation | The practicing of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil |
| Double Cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same field |
| Grain | Seed of a cereal grass |
| Horticulture | The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers |
| Hull | The outer covering of a seed |
| 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 |
| Milkshed | The area surrounding a city from milk is supplied |
| Paddy | Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah |
| Pastoral Nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals |
| Pasture | Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing |
| 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 |
| Prime Agricultural Land | The most productive farmland |
| Ranching | A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extended area |
| Sawah | A flooded field for growing rice |
| Seed Agriculture | Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds, which result from sexual fertilization |
| Slash and Burn Agriculture | Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris |
| 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 long period |
| Spring Wheat | Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer |
| Subsistence Agriculture | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family |
| Swidden | A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning |
| Thresh | To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it |
| Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures |
| Truck Farming | Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities |
| Vegetative Planting | Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants |
| Wet Rice | Rice planted on dry land in a nursery, then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth |
| Winnow | To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind |
| Winter wheat | Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer |
