Across
- 2. the transition from hunting and gathering to planting and sustaining
- 6. the art or practice of garden cultivation and management.
- 9. the production of crops for sale
- 12. the production of crops of some vegetables on an extensive scale in regions especially suited to their culture primarily for shipment to distant markets
- 14. a land degradation process that occurs in drylands
- 15. the practice of planting different crops sequentially
- 16. a region producing milk that may be supplied to the area of demand
- 18. form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer's family
- 20. the emergence of new varieties of crops
Down
- 1. a wet or irrigated rice field
- 3. a form of conservation tillage where the farmer builds ridges or raised beds
- 4. a way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically
- 5. Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
- 7. agriculture intended to protect the environment
- 8. the action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle
- 10. the farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labour
- 11. an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored.
- 13. an area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain.
- 14. a practice where farmers harvest one crop, and then plant and harvest a second crop in the same field all within the same year.
- 17. an agricultural system in which temporary clearings are cropped for fewer years than they are allowed to remain fallow
- 19. a usually large group of plants and especially trees under cultivation