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- 1. The growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
- 7. degradation of land, especially in semi-arid areas, primarily because of human actions such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semi-arid land degradation.
- 8. desert an area in a developed country where food is difficult to obtain.
- 9. agriculture Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer’s family
- 12. cultivation A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a few years and left fallow for an extended period.
- 14. revolution The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
- 17. Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
- 20. cropping Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
- 21. tillage A system of planting crops on ridge tops to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.
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- 2. agriculture Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
- 3. agriculture Farming methods that provide long term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating crops with cash crops and reducing inputs of fertilizer and pesticides.
- 4. nomadism A form of substance agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.
- 5. A patch of land cleared for farming through slashing and burning.
- 6. farming commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a middle English word meaning ‘bartering” or “exchange of commides.”
- 10. The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and low land pastures.
- 11. revolution Rapid diffusion of new agricultural especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers.
- 13. Subsistence agriculture A form of substance agriculture in which farmers must expend a large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
- 15. A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country.
- 16. rotation The process of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil.
- 18. A flooded field for growing rice
- 19. The area surrounding a city from where milk is supplied.