Vocab

2. & Burn agriculture - method of growing food in which wild or forested land is clear cut and any remaining vegetation burned.
3. - field where rice is grown.
5. rotation- the practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop.
8. farming - production of crops of some vegetables on an extensive scale in regions
10. nomadism - a way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically.
11. grain- Oats, wheat, rye or barley.
12. - A farm that grows one or two crops.
14. land degradation.
17. revolution-intro of new higher-yield seed and more fertilizers.
20. a region producing milk that may be supplied to the area of demand
21. subsistence agriculture-farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labor
22. agriculture - farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer
23. rice - cultivation of rice by planting on dry land, transferring the seedlings to a flooded field

1. growing of fruits, vegetables and flowers.
4. cropping- two harvest on one field.
6. practice of raising herds of animals on large tracts of land
7. cultivation - plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed to freely grow
9. - machine that harvests a crop.
10. agricultural land a designation assigned by U.S. Department of Agriculture defining land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food
13. - he action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle
15. the combine machine performs in one operation the three tasks of reaping,threshing and cleaning.
16. - Agribusiness is the business portion of agriculture.
18. tillage - Ridge tillage
19. - an area of land cleared for cultivation by slashing and burning vegetation
22. - a wet or irrigated rice field