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Agriculture Test

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Thresh
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Swidden
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Crop
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Chaff
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Prime agricultural land
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Milkshed
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Truck farming
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Desertification
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Paddy
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Double cropping
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Crop rotation
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Ridge tillage
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Combine
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Reaper
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Spring wheat
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Transhumance
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Agribusiness
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Slash-and-burn agriculture
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Pasture
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Cereal gain
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Wheat planted in spring and harvested in late summer.
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Patch of land cleared for agriculture through slash-and-burning.
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A grass yielding grain for food.
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A machine that cuts cereal grain standing in the field.
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Commercial gardening and fruit farming.
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Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
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Shifting cultivation in which fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.
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A machine that reaps, threshes and cleans grain as it moves over the field.
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Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
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Degradation of land, especially in the semiarid regions, mainly because of human activity such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing and tree cutting.
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Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
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Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing.
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The most productive farmland.
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Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing.
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The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.
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System of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
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Malay word for wet rice, commonly used to describe a sawah.
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Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest for a specific season.
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To beat out grain for stalks by trampling it.
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The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid depleting and exhausting the soil.
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Form of subsistence agriculture that is based on the herding of domesticated animals.
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Agriculture by which the farmer provides food for himself and his family.
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The growing of fruits, vegetables and flowers.
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What were the two main practices of the green revolution? When did it take place?
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Who usually practices shifting cultivation? When does the most productive cultivation happen? What happens afterwards?
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Is commercial agriculture practiced more in LDCs or MDCs?
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Semiarid or arid land in MDCs, where vegetation is too sparse and soil too poor to support crops.
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Crops could include cotton, sugarcane, coca, rubber, tobacco, jute, tea, coconuts, palm ol and bananas. Plantations are usually in sparesley settled locations. The U.S. South had a need for plantations, for the principal crop was cotton.
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No, wet rice isn't a large percentage of Asia's agricultural land. This is odd, however, because wet rice is the region's most important crop.
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Threshed.

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