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10 Agriculture 9th
Chapter 10: Agriculture
Term | Definition |
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Adaptive Strategies | The unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment |
Agrarian | Characteristic of farmers or their way of life |
Agribusiness | Highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership |
Agricultural Landscape | Cultural landscape of agricultural areas |
Agricultural Location Model | Deals with location-allocation process of land uses by farmers and the spatial organization of agricultural land uses |
Agriculture | Cultivation of domesticated crops and raising of domesticated animals |
Animal Domestication | Animals kept for some utilitarian purpose whose breeding is human-controlled and whose survival is dependent on humans |
Aquaculture | Cultivation of aquatic organisms (fish, shellfish) especially for food |
Biotechnology | Any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof to make or modify products or processes for specific use |
Collective Farm | System of agricultural organization whereas farm laborers are not compensated via wages, but receive a share of the farm's net productivity |
Commercial Agriculture | Large-scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology |
Intensive Agriculture | Expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity |
Extensive Agriculture | Use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity |
Crop Rotation | Practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid soil exhaustion |
Dairying | Class of agricultural or animal husbandry enterprises, raising female lactating livestock for long-term milk production |
Debt-for-Nature Swap | Agreement between developing nation in debt and at least one of its creditors; minimize debt's negative effect on developing nation and minimize environmental destruction that developing nations often cause |
Double Cropping | Second crop is planted after the first has been harvested |
Primary Activities | Extraction of natural resources, such as agriculture, lumbering, and mining |