Chapter 10
Across
- 2. Commercial gardening and fruit farming
- 4. commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
- 7. Flooded field for growing rice
- 10. The seasonal movement of livestock (herding) between mountains and lowland pastures
- 11. A way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically
- 13. Great increase in production of food grains
- 18. A region producing milk that may be supplied to the area of demand
- 19. agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
- 20. Harvesting twice a year from the same field
- 21. degradation of land primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting
Down
- 1. Process of moving from one plot of land to another
- 3. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution
- 5. Where a farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labor
- 6. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family
- 8. The art or practice of garden cultivation and management
- 9. A form of conservation tillage where the farmer builds ridges or raised beds
- 12. an area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain
- 14. An area in which trees have been planted, especially for commercial purposes
- 15. practice of rotting use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhaustion the soil
- 16. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
- 17. time when humans beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied on hunting and gathering