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Agriculture

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Agriculture   show
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show Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season.  
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show Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants (cutting stems & dividing roots)  
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Seed agriculture   show
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Subsistence agriculture   show
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show Production of food primarily for sale off the farm  
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Agribusiness   show
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Prime agricultural land   show
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Shifting cultivation   show
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show When farmers clear land for planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris  
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Swidden   show
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Pastoral Nomadism   show
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show Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas  
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Intensive subsistence agriculture   show
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show The practice of planting rice on dry land in a nursery and then moving the seedlings to a flooded field to promote growth  
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Paddy   show
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show Flooded field for growing rice  
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show Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing  
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Thresh   show
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show To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away by the wind  
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show The outer covering of a seed  
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show The practice of harvesting twice a year from the same field  
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show Practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil  
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show Grass yielding grain for food  
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Milkshed   show
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show Seed of a cereal grain  
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show Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer  
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show Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer  
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Reaper   show
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show Machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field  
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Ranching   show
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Horticulture   show
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Truck farming   show
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show 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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show 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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Ridge tillage   show
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Desertification   show
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Green revolution   show
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show Integration of crops and livestock on the same farm  
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show Theory that a commercial farmer will decide which crops to grow and which livestock to raise depending on proximity to markets  
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