Chapter 10

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