Vocabulary Terms XIII

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Across
  1. 1. A flooded field for growing rice.
  2. 5. the rapid diffusion of agricultural technology, such as fertilisers.
  3. 7. Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
  4. 10. rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth.
  5. 11. Commercial agriculture that is characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through the ownership of large corporations.
  6. 13. Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named for the Middle English word truck, meaning “barter” or “exchange of commodities”.
  7. 14. rotation-The practice of rotating the use of fields every year to avoid exhausting the soil.
  8. 15. Agriculture that has been created primarily to provide food for the farmer and family.
  9. 18. a form of subsistence agriculture, based on herding domesticated animals in dryer climates.
  10. 19. A grass that yields grain for food.
  11. 21. seasonal migration of livestock between mountain and lowland pasture area
  12. 22. A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift actively from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a few years, then let it fallow for a relatively long period.
  13. 23. Relatively small scale production of fruits and vegetables, and other horticulture.
Down
  1. 2. The growing of fruits and vegetables, flowers, and tee crops.
  2. 3. The best available land which is capable of producing acceptable yields of crops with acceptable inputs and minimal environmental damage.
  3. 4. A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock grace over an extensive area.
  4. 6. An area of land for cultivation that has been cleared by slash and burn agriculture.
  5. 8. The degradation of land, mostly in semiarid areas, primarily due to human actions such as excessive planting.
  6. 9. the area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied.
  7. 12. & Burn agriculture- when farmers clear land for planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris
  8. 16. A system of commercial planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production cost and promote greater soil conservation.
  9. 17. the Malay word to describe wet rice, which was increasingly used to describe flooded fields.
  10. 20. a large commercial farm in a developing country, that specializes in one or two crops.