Bayne Ap Hug Chapter 10

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agribusiness

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he businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products

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agriculture

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the production of crops, livestock, or poultry

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cereal grain

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oats, wheat, rye, or barley

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chaff

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the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing

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combine

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a machine that performs the three tasks of reaping, threshing, and cleaning in one operation

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commercial agriculture

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the production of food primarily for sale off the farm

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crop

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a supply produced

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crop rotation

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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

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desertification

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the processes by which an area becomes a desert

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double cropping

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two harvests per year from one field

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grain

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the seed from various grasses, like wheat, corn, oats, barley, rice, millet, and others

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green revolution

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the invention and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970s and 1980s

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horticulture

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the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers

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hull

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outer covering

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intensive subsistence agriculture

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farmers must work more intensively to subsist on a parcel of land

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milkshed

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the ring surrounding a city from which milk can be supplied without spoiling

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paddy

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the Malay word for wet rice

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pastoral nomadism

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a form of subsistence agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals

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pasture

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grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing

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plantation

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a large farm that specializes in one or two crops

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prime agricultural land

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the most productive farmland

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ranching

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the commercial grazing of livestock over an extensive area

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reaper

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a machine that cuts grain standing in a field

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ridge tillage

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a system of planting crops on ridge tops

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sawah

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a flooded field

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seed agriculture

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the reproduction of plants through annual planting of seeds that result from sexual fertilization

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slash-and-burn agriculture

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clearing land for planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris

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shifting cultivation

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slash-and-burn agriculture; farmers also grow crops on a cleared field for only a few years until soil nutrients are depleted

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spring wheat

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found in the second most important grain-producing region

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subsistence agriculture

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the production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer's family

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sustainable agriculture

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an agricultural practice that preserves and enhances environmental quality

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swidden

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cleared area of land

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thresh

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to separate the grain or seeds from by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine

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transhumance

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seasonal migration of livestock

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truck farming

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bartering or exchanging goods and crops

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vegetative planting

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the reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants

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wet rice

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otherwise known as a paddy

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winnow

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to allow to be blown away by wind

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winter wheat

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the crop is planted in autumn and develops a strong root system before growth stops for the winter