Jeremy's Chapter 10 Vocabulary

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Agribusiness

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Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different stores in the food processing industry of livestock through ownership by large cooperations.

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Agriculture

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The deliberate effort to modify a portion of earth's surface through cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock to subsistence 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 grain while moving over a field.

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Commercial agriculter

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Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale of the farm.

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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 semi areas primarily because of human actions such as 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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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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Intensive subsistence agriculture

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A form of subsistence agriculture from 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 milk is supplied.

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Pastoral nomadism

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A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding animals.

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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 countries.

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Prime agricultural farmland

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The most productive farmland.

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Ranching

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A form a commercial agriculture in which livestock graze 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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System of planting crops on ridge tips to reduce farm production costs to promote greater soil conservation.

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Sawah

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A flooded field for frowning rice.

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Seed agricultre

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Reproduction of plants through the annual introduction of seeds, which result firm sexual fertilization.

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Shifting cultivation

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A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift form one field to another, each field is used for crops for a few years, then 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 bra use fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.

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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 agriculter

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Farming methods that preserve long term productivity of land and minimize pollution typically by rotating soul restoring crops with cash and reducing inputs of fertilizers 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 mountainous and lowland pastures.

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Track 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 rive

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Rice planted on a dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deli early flooded to promote growth.