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Across
  1. 1. the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
  2. 3. agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmers family
  3. 8. a form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend z relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land
  4. 10. a form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals
  5. 15. agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm
  6. 16. rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers
  7. 19. a patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning
  8. 20. farming methods that preserve long term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil-restoring crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizers and pesticides
  9. 21. commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a middle english word meaning bartering
Down
  1. 2. the seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures
  2. 4. a system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation
  3. 5. degradation of land, especially in a semiarid areas, primarily because of human because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. also known as semiarid land degradation
  4. 6. the time when human beings first
  5. 7. an area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain
  6. 9. a flooded field for growing rice
  7. 11. commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations
  8. 12. the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
  9. 13. the area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
  10. 14. harvesting twice a year from the same field
  11. 17. a form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left for relatively long period
  12. 18. a large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale