| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Agribusiness | Commercial farming in U.S. |
| Agriculture | Deliberate modification of the earth through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals |
| Cereal Grain | A grass yielding grain for food |
| Chaff | Husks, separated from rice seeds by threshing the heads either by beating them on the ground of by walking on them |
| Combine | Machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field |
| Commercial Agriculture | Production of crops to sell |
| Crop | Any plant cultivated by people |
| Crop Rotation | Practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid soil exaustion |
| Desertification | Degradation of land primarily because of human actions like excessive plant cropping, animal grazing, and tree cutting |
| Grain | Seed of a cereal grass |
| Green Revolution | Rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers |
| Horticulture (also called Mediterranean Farming) | Growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers |
| Hull | Outer covering of rice, removed by mortar & pestle |
| Intensive Subsistence Ag | Form of subsistence ag n which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a piece of land |
| Milkshed | Area around a city that provids milk |
| Paddy | Wet rice, commonly & incorrectly used to describe a sawah |
| Pastoral Nomadism | Subsistence sheep herding |
| Pasture | Grass or other plants grown for feeding grazing animals, as well as land used for grazing... that sounds like the same thing twice to me, but it's what the book said. |
| Plantation | Large farm in tropical & subtropical climates that specializes in production of 1 or 2 crops for sale, usually to an MDC |
| Prime Agricultural Land | The most productive farmland |
| Ranching | Form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an extensive area |
| Reaper | Machine that cuts grain standing in the field |
| Ridge Tillage | System of planting crops on ridge tops to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation |
| Sawah | Flooded field for growing rice |
| Seed Agriculture | Reproduction of plants through annual introduction of seeds which result from sexual fertilization |
| Slash-And-Burn Agriculture | Slash vegetation, burn debris - used to clear land |
| Shifting Cultivation | Shifting areas of land for vegetation |
| Spring Wheat | Wheat planted in spring & harvested in late summer |
| Subsistence Agriculture | Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for the farmer & farmer's family |
| Sustainable Agriculture | Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land & minimize pollution |
| Swidden | Cleared area of land |
| Thresh | To beat grain out from stalks by walking on it :P |
| Transhumance | Seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures |
| Truck Farming | Commercial gardening & fruit farming |
| Vegetative Planting | Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants |
| Wet Rice | Rice planted on dryland in a nursery, then moved to a deliberately flooded field (sawah) to promote growth |
| Winnow | To remove chaff by letting it blow away |
| Winter Wheat | Wheat planted in fall, harvested early summer |
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