Across
- 2. The cultivation of rice on a paddy, or small flooded field enclosed by mud dikes, practiced in the humid areas of the Far East
- 6. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
- 8. The cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising or domesticated animals
- 11. In America commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no on one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hired migration workers
- 13. The killing of wild game and the harvesting of wild plants to provide food in traditional cultures
- 14. The period of each year when crops can be grown. It is usually determined by climate and crop selection. Depending on the location, temperature, daylight hours(photo period), and rainfall, may be critical environmental factors
Down
- 1. The continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals
- 3. Highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership
- 4. The cultivation of aquatic organisms(as fish or shellfish) especially for food
- 5. Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because the word was a Middle English word meaning bartering or the exchange of commodities
- 7. A second crop is planted after the first has been harvested
- 9. A commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat
- 10. A factory like farm devoted to either livestock fattening or dairying; all feed is imported and no crops are grown on the farm
- 12. The art, science, and practice of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources
- 15. Characteristics of farmers or their way of life