Agriculture Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Malay word for wet rice
  2. 3. a flooded field for growing rice
  3. 8. Commercial gardening and fruit farming
  4. 11. Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing
  5. 13. planting crops on ridge tops
  6. 14. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  7. 16. The most productive farmland
  8. 17. Farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
  9. 25. A large farm in that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale
  10. 27. Seed of a cereal grass
  11. 30. Degradation of land primarily because of human actions
  12. 32. Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds
  13. 33. Rice planted on dryland in nursery and then mosved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth
  14. 34. harvesting twice a year from the same field
Down
  1. 1. Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing
  2. 2. Subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
  3. 3. Fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris
  4. 4. To remove chaff by allowing it to be blown away nu the wind
  5. 5. Agriculture that generates products for sale off the farm
  6. 6. The modification of Earth's surface by cultivating crops and raising crops
  7. 7. Commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over and extensive area
  8. 9. The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
  9. 10. A machine that reaps,threshes,and cleans grain while moving over a field
  10. 12. A machine that cuts grain standing in the field
  11. 14. The outer covering of a seed
  12. 15. To beat our grain from stalks by trampling it
  13. 18. A form of subsistence agricultre in which people shift activity from one field to another
  14. 19. A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  15. 20. Grain or fruit gathered from a field as a harvest during particular season
  16. 21. Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology
  17. 22. The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
  18. 23. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
  19. 24. Commercial agriculture associated with large corporations
  20. 26. A grass yielding grain for food
  21. 28. Wheat planted in the spring and harvested in the late summer
  22. 29. Wheat planted in the fall and harvested in the early summer
  23. 31. Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals