Agriculture Vocab

commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry usually through ownership by large corporations

• Agribusiness

• Commercial agriculture

• Green Revolution

• Intensive agriculture

commercial farming characterized by integration of crops and livestock; most of the crops are fed to animals rather than consumed directly by humans

• Pastoral nomadism

• Mixed crop/livestock farming

• Ranching

• Shifting cultivation

the most productive farmland

• No tillage

• Crop rotation

• Horticulture

• Prime agricultural land

a form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals

• Plantation

• Fishing

• Pastoral nomadism

• Slash and burn agriculture

a flooded field for growing rice

• Sawah

• Plantation

• Swidden

• Transhumance

rice planted on dry land in a nursery and then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth

• Paddy

• Sawah

• Swidden

• Wet rice

rapid diffusion of new agricultural technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers

• Agricultural revolution

• Green Revolution

• Transhumance

• Horticulture

capturing fish faster than they can produce

• Fishing

• Overfishing

a form of subsistence agriculture characteristics of Asia’s major population concentrations in which farmers must expend a relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land

• Subsistence agrilculture

• Shifting cultivation

• Intensive agriculture

• Transhumance

another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris

• Swidden

• Slash and burn agriculture

• Truck farming

• No tillage