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| agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by integration in diffrent steps in food-processing industry,usally through ownership by large corporations. |
| agriculture | the deliberate effort to modify a portion of earth's surface throughthe cultivation of crops and the raising of a livestock for sustenance or economic gain. |
| cereal grain | a grass yielding grain for food. |
| chaff | husk of grain seperated from the seed by threshing. |
| combine | a machine that reaps,threshes, and cleans grain 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 perticular season. |
| crop rotation | the practice of rotating use of differentfields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. |
| double cropping | harvesting twice a year from the same field. |
| grain | seed of cereal grass. |
| horticulture | the growing of fruits, vegetabels, and flowers. |
| hull | the outer covering of a seed |
| intensive subsistence agriculture | a from of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to product the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land. |
| milkshed | the area surounding a city from which milk is supplied |
| paddy | malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah. |
| pastoral nomadism | a from 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 on or two crops for sale, usally to a more developed country. |
| prime agricultural land | the most productive farmland. |
| ranching | a form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area. |
| reaper | A machine that cuts grain standing in the field |
| sawah | A flooded field for growing rice |
| seed agriculture | Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds, which results from the 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 few years and left fallow for a relatively long period |
| spring wheat | Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer |
| subsistence 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 fertilizers and pesticides |
| 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 large commodities |
| vegetative farming | Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants |
| wet rice | Rice planted on dryland 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 |
