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| Agribusiness | agriculture conducted on commercial principles, especially using advanced technology. |
| Agriculture | the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products |
| Cereal Grain | A grass yielding grain for food |
| Chaff | the husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing |
| Combine | A machine that reaps, threshes, and cleans grain while moving over a field |
| Commercial Agriculture | is a large-scale production of crops for sale, intended for widespread distribution to wholesalers or retail outlets. In commercial farming crops such as wheat, maize, tea, coffee, sugarcane, cashew, rubber, banana, cotton are harvested and sold in the world markets |
| Crop | a cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially a grain, fruit, or vegetable |
| Crop Rotation | The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil |
| Desertification | the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture |
| Double Cropping | Harvesting twice a year from the same field. the practice of growing two or more crops in the same space during a single growing season. It is a form of polyculture. |
| Grain | wheat or any other cultivated cereal crop used as food |
| Green Revolution | a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties |
| Horticulture | the art or practice of garden cultivation and management |
| Hull | The outer covering of a seed |
| Intensive Subsistence Agriculture | a form of subsistence agriculture that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yields |
| Milkshed | is a region producing milk that may be supplied to the area of demand. It is an area geographically demarcated for the collection of milk or milk products |
| Paddy | Malay word for wet rice, commonly but incorrectly used to describe a sawah |
| Pastoral Nomadism | is a livelihood form that is ecologically adjusted at a particular level to the utilization of marginal resources |
| Pasture | land covered with grass and other low plants suitable for grazing animals, especially cattle or sheep |
| Plantation | an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor |
| Prime Agricultural Land | is a designation assigned by U.S. Department of Agriculture defining land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food, feed, forage, fiber, and oilseed crops and is also available for these land uses |
| Ranching | breed (animals) on a ranch |
| Reaper | a person or machine that harvests a crop |
| Ridge Tillage | A type of soil conserving tillage in which the soil is formed into ridges and the seeds are planted on the tops of the ridges. The soil and the crop residue between the rows remain largely undisturbed |
| Sawah | A flooded field for growing rice |
| Shifting Cultivation | a form of agriculture, used especially in tropical Africa, in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored |
| Slash-and-Burn Agriculture | Of, relating to, or denoting a method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown, typically used as a method for clearing forest land for farming |
| Spring Wheat | A general term for wheat that is planted in the spring and harvested in summer. About half of Montana’s wheat harvest consists of spring wheat varieties |
| Subsistence Agriculture | is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families. The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to feed and clothe themselves during the year |
| Sustainable Agriculture | is the production of food, fiber, or other plant or animal products using farming techniques that protect the environment, public health, human communities, and animal welfare |
| Swidden | an area of land cleared for cultivation by slashing and burning vegetation |
| Thresh | separate grain from (a plant), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism |
| Transhumance | the action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer |
| Truck Farming | a farm where people grow vegetables that will be sold in markets |
| Wet Rice | the cultivation of rice by planting on dry land, transferring the seedlings to a flooded field, and draining the field before harvesting |
| Winnow | blow a current of air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff |
| Winter Wheat | are strains of wheat that are planted in the autumn to germinate and develop into young plants that remain in the vegetative phase during the winter and resume growth in early spring |
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