1.
Agribusiness: becuase the family farm is not an isolated activity but is intergratd into large food production industry
2.
Agriculture: is deliberate modification of earth's surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obatin sustenance or economic gain
3.
Cereal Grain: such as oats, wheat, rye,or barley, was planted in a more favorable field while the other was left alone
4.
Chaff: from the seeds ofrice plants
5.
Combine: machine performs in one operation the three tasks of reaping, threshing, and cleaning
6.
Commercial Agriculture: found in MDC's, is the production of food primarily for sale off the farm
7.
Crop: is any plant cultivated by people
8.
Crop Rotation: which is the practice of rotating use of different fileds from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
9.
Desertification: semi-arid degradation
10.
Double Cropping: obtaining to harvest a yera from one field
11.
Grain: is the seed form various grasses, like wheat, corn, oats, barley, rice, millet, and others
12.
Green Revolution: the inventin and rapid diffusion of more productive agricultural techniques during the 1970's and 1980's
13.
Horticuture: which is the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers and tree crops form the commercial base of mediterranean farming
14.
Hull: or outer covering, is removed by mortar and pestle
15.
Intensive Subsistenance Agriculture: the term intensive implies that farmer must work more intensively to subsist on a pacel of land for another form of subsistenance agriculture
16.
Milkshed: the ring surronding a city form which milk can be suplied wthout spoiling
17.
Paddy: the malay word for wet rice
18.
Pastoral Nomadism: is a form of subsistenance agriculture based on the herding of domesticaed animals.
19.
Pasture: is grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals,as well as land used for grazing.
20.
Plantation: is a large farm that specilaizes in one or two crops
21.
Prime Agriculture Land: as urban areas sprawl intote surronding countryside
22.
Ranching: is the commercial grazing of livestock over an extenive area
23.
Reaper: a machine that cuts grain standing in the field
24.
Ridge Tillage: which is a system of planting crops on ridge tops
25.
Sawah: floodfield
26.
Seed Agriculture: which is the reproduction of plants through annual planting of seeds that result from sexual fertilization
27.
Shifting Cultivation: farmers clear land for planting by slashing and burning the debris and farmers grow crops om a cleared field for only a few years until soil nutrients are depleted and then leave it fallow (nothing planted) for many years so the soil can recover
28.
Slash and Burn Agriculture: framers clear land for planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris
29.
Spring Wheat: belt of the Dakotas, Montana, and Southern Saskatchewan in Canada
30.
Subsistenance Agriculture: an agricultural practice that preserves and enchances enviromental quality
31.
Subsistenance Agriculture: found in LDC's, is the production of food primarily for consumption by the farmer's family
32.
Swidden: the undergrowth that is cleared aay so that rain washes new ashes into the oil, providing needed nutrients
33.
Thresh: by beating them on the ground or treading on them bare foot
34.
Transhumance: which is seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pasture areas
35.
Truck Farming: were goods transported in these high humidy climate regions, New York, Philadelphaphy, washington, and other eastern U.S. urban areas
36.
Vegetative Planting: which is the reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants, such as cutting stems and dividing roots
37.
Wet Rice: refers to the practice of planting rice on dry land in an nursery and then moving the seedings to flooded field to promote growth
38.
Winnow: that is, allowed to be blown away by the wind
39.
Winter Wheat: area, the crop is planted in the autumn and develops a strong root system before growth stops for the winter
