| A | B |
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| agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by intergration of different steps in the food-processing industry |
| animal domestication | taming of animals for consuming or selling |
| aquaculture | cultivation of aquatic organisms for food |
| biotechnology | modifying living organisms to imporve plant and animal production |
| collective farm | A farm or a group of farms organized as a unit and managed and worked cooperatively by a group of laborers under state supervision, especially in a communist country |
| intensive commercial agriculture | Smaller areas producing greater yield |
| extensive commercial agriculture | Larger areas of agriculture used for ranching or farming |
| crop rotation | the practice of growing different crops in succession on the same land chiefly to preserve the productive capacity of the soil |
| desertification | process by which fertile land becomes arid and unproductive |
| double cropping | harvesting twic a year from same land |
| primary economic activity | extraction phase, removing from the earth |
| secondary economic activity | production phase, manufacturing and assembling product |
| tertiary economic activity | service phase, providing good & service for consumption |
| extensive subsistence agriculture | characterized by low inputs of labor per unit of land area (spread out over large area) |
| market gardening | The small scale production of fruits, vegetables, and flowers as cash crops sold directly to local consumers |
