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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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