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Agriculture
Agriculture- LeBlanc
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by integrating different steps in the food-processing industry, usually by large companies. |
| Agriculture | Deliberate modification of the Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals for a gain. |
| Cereal Grain | A grass yielding grain for food. |
| Chaff | Husks of grain seperated from the seed by threshing. |
| Combine | A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field. |
| Commercial Agriculture | Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products sell off the farm. |
| Crop | Grain of fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season. |
| Crop Rotation | The practice of rotating from different fields from crop to crop each year to prevent exhausting the soil. |
| Double Cropping | Harvesting twicea year from the same field. |
| Grain | Seed of a cereal grass. |
| Horticulture | Growing of fruits, vegetables, and glowers. |
| Hull | The outer covering of a seed. |
| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | form of agriculture where farmers must exert lots of energy to produce the maximum yield of a crop. |
| Milkshed | Area surrounding a city where milk is produced. |
| Paddy | Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used as a word for sawah. |
| Pastoral Nomadism | Form of agriculture based on herding domesticated animals. |
| Pasture | Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, also land used for grazing. |
| Plantation | Large farm specializing in sale of one or two crops to a more developed country. |
| Prime Agricultural Land | Most productive farm land. |
| Ranching | Form of commercial agriculture where livestock graze over an extensive area. |
| Reaper | Machine used to cut grain that is standing in a field. |
| Sawah | Flooded field used for growing rice. |
| Seed Agriculture | Reproduction of plants through the annual production of seeds; this is a result of sexual fertilization. |
| Slash and burn Agriculture | Name for agriculture where the vegetation is slashed and the debris burned. |
| Shifting Cultivation | Form of subsistence farming where people shift activity from one field to another. |
| Spring Wheat | Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in late summer. |
| Subsitence Agriculture | Agriculture designe primaily to provide food for direct consumption by the famer and family. |
| Swidden | Patch of land used for farming through slash and burn. |
| Thresh | To beat out grain from stalks by trampling it. |
| Transhumance | Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures. |
| Truck Farming | Commercial gardening and fruit farming. |
| Vegetative Planting | Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants. |
| Wet Rice | Rice planted on dryland in a nursery then moved to a deliberately flooded field for growth. |
| Winnow | To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind. |
| Winter Wheat | Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in early summer. |
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