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| Quinary Economic Activities | Most advanced form of quaternary activities consisting of high-level decision making for large corporations or high-level scientific research. |
| Secondary economic activities | Economic activities concerned with the processing of raw materials such as manufacturing, construction, and power generation. |
| Tertiary economic activities | Activities that provide the market exchange of goods, and that bring together consumers and providers of services such as retail, transportation, government, personal, and professional services. |
| Agribusiness | Set of economic and political relationships that organize food production for commercial purposes. It includes activities ranging from seed production to retailing, to consumption of agricultural products. |
| Capital-intensive agriculture | Form of agriculture that uses mechanical goods such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods - process requiring very little human labor. |
| Extensive Agriculture | An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area. |
| Green Revolution | Development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increased technology, pesticides, and fertilizers transferred from the developed to developing world gto alleviate the problem of food supply in those regions of the globe. |
| Intensive Cultivation | Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield. |
| Mediterranean Agriculture | An agricultural system practiced in the Mediterranean climates of Western Europe, California, and portion of Chile and Australia, in which diverse specialty crops such as grapes, avacados, olives, and host of nuts, fruits, and vegetables comprise profitable agricultural operations. |
| Planned agricultural economy | Agricultural economy found in communist nations in which the government controls both agricultural production and distribution. |
| Plantation | Large, frequently foreign-owned piece of agricultural land devoted to the production of a single export crop. |
| Shifting Cultivation | The use of tropical forest clearings for crop production until their fertility is lost. Plots are then abandoned, and farmers move on to new sites. |
| Slash-and-Burn Agriculture | System of cultivation that usually exists in tropical areas where vegetation is cut close to the ground then ignited. The fire introduces nutrients into the soil, making it productive for a relatively short period of time. |
| Subsistence agricultural economy | Any farm activity in which most crops are grown for nearly exclusive family or local consumption. |
| Swidden | Land that is prepared for agriculture by using slash-and-burn method. |
| Transhumance | The movements of livestock according to seasonal patterns, generally lowland areas in winter, and highland areas in summer. |
| Von Thunen Model | Agricultural model that spatially describes agricultural activity in terms of rent. Activities that require intensive cultivation and cannot be transported over great distances pay higher rent to be closer to the market. Conversely, activities that are more extensive, with goods that are easy to transport, are located farther from market where rent is lower. |
