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agribusiness |
commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations |
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agricultural revolution |
the time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering |
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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 |
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aquaculture (aquafarming) |
the cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions |
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cereal grain |
a grass that yields grain for food |
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commercial agriculture |
agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm |
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crop |
any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season |
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crop rotation |
the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil |
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dairy farm |
a form of commercial agriculture that specializes in the production of milk and other dairy products |
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desertification |
degradation of land , especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. also known as semiarid land degradation. |
