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Agribusiness
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commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
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Agriculture
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The deliberate effort to modify a portion of the Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain
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Cereal grain
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a grass yielding grain for food
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Chaff
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Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
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combine
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a machine that reaps, threshes and cleans a grain while moving across a field
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Commercial Agriculture
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Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
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Crop
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Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season
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Crop rotation
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the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
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Desertification
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Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting
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Double cropping
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Harvesting twice a year from the same field
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Grain
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seed of a cereal grass
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Green Revolution
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rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
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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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The outer covering of a seed
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intensive Subsistence Agriculture
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A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
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Milkshed
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The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
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Paddy
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Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah
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Pastoral nomadism
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A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding 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 in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country
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Prime agricultural land
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The most productive farmland
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Ranching
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A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area
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Reaper
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A machine that cuts cereal grain standing in a field
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Ridge tillage
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System of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
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Sawah
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A flooded field for growing rice
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Shifting cultivation
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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
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Slash-and-burn agriculture
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Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
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Spring wheat
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Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
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Subsistence Agriculture
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Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
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Sustainable Agriculture
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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 fertilizer and pesticides
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Swidden
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A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
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Thresh
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To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
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Transhumance
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The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
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Truck farming
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Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because "truck" was a Middle English word meaning "bartering" or the exchange of commodities
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Wet Rice
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Rice planted on dryland in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
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Winnow
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To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind
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Winter Wheat
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wheat planted in the autumn and harvested in the early summer
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