chapter 8 vocab

4. Flooded field for growing rice
6. Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family.
8. The seasonal movement of livestock (herding) between mountains and lowland pastures.
11. practice of rotting use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhaustion the soil
14. Great increase in production of food grains
15. An area in which trees have been planted, especially for commercial purposes
16. Process of moving from one plot of land to another
17. Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution.
18. - A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.
19. A region producing milk that may be supplied to the area of demand
20. The art or practice of garden cultivation and management
21. agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm

1. Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
2. degradation of land primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting
3. commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
5. time when humans beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied on hunting and gathering
7. Commercial gardening and fruit farming
9. Where a farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labor
10. an area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain.
12. A way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically
13. A form of conservation tillage where the farmer builds ridges or raised beds