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AGRIBUSINESS   commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations  
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AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION   The time when human beings first domesticated plants & no longer relied entirely on hunting & gathering  
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AGRICULTURE   The deliberate effort to modify a portion of earth's surface through the cultivation of crops & the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain  
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AQUACULTURE   The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions  
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CEREAL GRAIN   A grass that yields grain for food  
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CHAFF   husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing  
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COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE   Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm  
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CROP   any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season  
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DIETARY ENERGY CONSUMPTION   The amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in kilocalories (calories in the US)  
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GRAIN   seed of a cereal grass  
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GREEN REVOLUTION   Rapid diffusion of new agriculture technology especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers  
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INTENSIVE SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE   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   The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied  
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OVERFISHING   capturing fish faster than they can reproduce  
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PADDY   The Malay word for wet rice, increasingly used to describe a flooded rice field  
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PASTORAL NOMADISM   A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals  
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PLANTATION   A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of 1 or 2 crops for sale, usually to a more developed country  
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RIDGE TILLAGE   A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation  
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SAWAH   A flooded field for growing rice  
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SHIFTING CULTIVATION   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   another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris  
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SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE   agriculture designed primarily to provide foot for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmers family  
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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE   farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides  
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THRESHING   beating out grain from stalks  
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TRUCK FARMING   commercial gardening and fruit farming so named "TRUCK" was a middle English word meaning "barter" or "exchange of commodities"  
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UNDERNOURISHMENT   dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity  
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WET RICE   rice planted in dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth  
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WINNOWING   removing chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind  
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