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| Agribusiness | The businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products. |
| Agriculture | the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming. |
| Agricultural Revolution (First) | The transition from hunting and gathering communities and bands, to agriculture and settlement |
| Agricultural Revolution (Second) | The introduction of technology to agriculture resulted in increased yields for commercial sale. |
| Agricultural Revolution (Third) | The introduction of biological engineering to increase yields for commercial sale AND subsistence farmers |
| Aquaculture | the cultivation of aquatic animals and plants, esp. fish, shellfish, and seaweed, in natural or controlled marine or freshwater environments; underwater agriculture. |
| Biotechnology | The use of a living organism to solve an engineering problem or perform an industrial task. |
| Chaff | the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing. |
| Combine | a harvesting machine for cutting and threshing grain in the field |
| Commercial agriculture | Agriculture which exists solely for the purpose of making profit; characterized by highly mechanized operation in vast swaths of land. |
| Crop | Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group: Wheat is a common crop. |
| Crop rotation / Shifting Agriculture | The system of varying successive crops in a definite order on the same ground, esp. to avoid depleting the soil and to control weeds, diseases, and pests. |
| Collective farm | A farm, or a number of farms organized as a unit, worked by a community under the supervision of the state. |
| Domestication (Animal) | A population of animals must have their behavior, life cycle, or physiology systemically altered as a result of being under human control for many generations. |
| Domestication (Plant) | A domesticated plant, strictly defined, is one whose reproductive success depends on human intervention; in addition their plant is systematically controlled to meet a human need. |
| Desertification | the rapid depletion of plant life and the loss of topsoil at desert boundaries and in semiarid regions, usually caused by a combination of drought and the overexploitation of grasses and other vegetation by people. |
| Dairying | The business of owning and operating a dairy or a dairy farm. |
| Double cropping | to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season. |
| Grain | a small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet. |
| Green revolution | The rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970’s and 1980’s mainly involving higher-yield seeds and expanded use of fertilizers. |
| Forestry | the science of planting and taking care of trees and forests |
| Horticulture | the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants. |
| Hull | the husk, shell, or outer covering of a seed or fruit. |
| Hunting and Gathering | the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild |
| Intensive agriculture | an agricultural production system characterized by the high inputs of capital, labor, or heavy usage of technologies such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area |
| Intertillage | Planting between rows of crop plants already prepared for the growth of crops. |
| Livestock | the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch. |
| Milk shed | a region producing milk for a specific community: the |
| Mediterranean Agriculture | Found in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. It has developed as a result of the warm wet winters and hot dry summers in this area. Cereal crops are sown in the autumn and harvested in late spring. Trees and vines are grown and crops from them, such as grapes and olives, are collected in the summer after ripening. In addition, goats and sheep are often kept to provide extra income |
| Narco-agriculture | The cultivation of Narcotics for the black market; this usually occurs in areas out of reach of the state or in states were Narcotics cultivation is not illegal. |
| Paddy | a rice field |
| Pampas | The Pampas of South America are a grassland biome. They are flat, fertile plains that covers an area of 300,000 sq. miles or 777,000 square kilometers, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Andes Mountains. |
| Pasture | an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland |
| Plantation | A large estate or farm usually dedicated to one crop, often raised by resident workers |
| Prime agricultural land | Agriculture, is land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food, feed, forage, fiber, and oilseed crops and is also available for these uses |
| Ranching | An extensive farm, especially in the western United States, on which large herds of cattle, sheep, or horses are raised |
| Reaper | a machine for cutting standing grain; reaping machine |
| Ridge tillage | a reduced tillage system that is somewhere between no-till and conventional tillage. Crops are planted on ridges that stay in the same location year after |
| Sawah | A flooded field for rice cultivation or artificial paddy. |
| Seed agriculture | Reproduction of plants through seeds. |
| Slash and burn agriculture/ Swidden | Slashing existing vegetation and burning it in order to create fertilizer. |
| Spring wheat | Spring wheat is planted in the spring and harvested in late summer or early fall. |
| Subsistence agriculture | Producing food for personal or community consumption |
| Sustainable agriculture | Using agricultural practices which conserve the fertility of the land and ensure |
| Thresh | To separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail |
| Truck farming | A farm producing vegetables for the market |
| Von Thünen’s Model | Early in the 19th century Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783-1850) developed a model of land use that showed how market processes could determine how land in different locations would be used. |
| Wet rice | In wet rice agriculture, seeds are sown in small seedbeds; the seedlings are then transplanted one by one to prepared paddy fields. While the plants are maturing, they must be kept irrigated, but as the rice ripens the fields are drained. The rice is then harvested and threshed by hand. Wet rice agriculture is labor-intensive, |
| Winter wheat | which normally accounts for 70 to 80 percent of U.S. production, is sown in the fall and harvested in the spring or summer |
