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Ch 10 KI 3 & 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agribusiness | Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations |
| Cash Crop | Crops grown in large amounts to be sold for profit |
| Commercial Gardening | Type of commercial ag common in the SE USA which produces many fruits and vegetables |
| Crop Rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil |
| Dairying | Type of commercial ag that produces milk products |
| Double Cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same field |
| Fallow | Land that is left unfarmed to bring back fertility |
| Grain Farming | Type of commercial ag that is heavily mechanized and produces grains for consumption by humans |
| Horticulture | The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers |
| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture (Wet Rice & Not Wet Rice Dominant) | 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 |
| Mediterranean Farming | Type of commercial ag that is dependent upon Mediterranean climate and produces products from crops and livestock |
| Milkshed | The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied |
| Mixed Crop & Livestock | Type of commercial ag which integrates crops and livestock by feeding most of the crops to livestock which supplies manure for crops. |
| Paddy | The Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah |
| Pastoral Nomadism | A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals |
| Pasture | Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing |
| Plantation | Type of subsistence ag where a 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 |
| Ranching | Type of commercial ag in which livestock graze over an extensive area |
| Sawah | A flooded field for growing rice |
| Shifting Cultivation | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each filed is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period |
| Slash and Burn Agriculture | Another name for shifting cultivation so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris |
| Transhumance | The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures |
| Truck Farming | Used in commercial gardening and fruit farming which means bartering and exchange of commodities |
| Wet Rice | Rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth |
| Aquaculture | The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions. |
| Desertification | Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting |
| Green Revolution | Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers |
| Prime Agricultural Land | The most productive farmland |
| Ridge Tillage | A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation |
| Sustainable Agriculture | 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 |
| Sustainable Agriculture | 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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