Agribusiness
Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.
Agriculture
Cereal Grain
combine
commercial agriculture
Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
crop
crop rotation
The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
desertification
the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert
double cropping
Harvesting twice a year from the same field.
grain
green revolution
A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land.
pastoral nomadism
plantation
shifting cultivation
slash and burn agriculture
subsistence agriculture
sustainable agriculture
Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil- restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.
Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named because truck was a Middle English word meaning batering or the exchange of commodities.
reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants