Agriculture

Definition of agriculture

• the science or practice of farming

• comprises establishment primarily engaged in growing crops, raising animals, farming,

• the process of too many plants growing on the surface of a river, lake, etc., often because chemicals that are used to help crops grow have been carried there by rain

• a long period of time when there is little or no rain

a chemical substance used to kill harmful insects, small animals, wild plants, and other unwanted organisms

• pest (n)

• pesticide (n)

• productivity

• spray (v)

subsistence farming

• to breed and raise livestock

• an animal or plant from a particular group whose characteristics are different in some way from others of the same group

• farming that provides enough food for the farmer and their family to live on, but not enough for them to sell

• an amount of something positive, such as food or profit, that is produced or supplied

salmonella: a type of ........ that exists in several forms, some of which live in food and make the people who eat it ill

capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment

• toxic

• sustainable

• organic (adj)

• genetically modified (adj)

yield (n)

• something that remains after a part is removed

• Restriction of an organism or a population activity to a portion of the environment

• an amount of something positive, such as food or profit, that is produced or supplied

• having the effect of a poison

​a substance added to soil to make plants grow more successfully

• mechanization (n)

• livestock (n)

• hormone (n)

• fertilizer (n)

drought (n): a long period of time when there is little or no ......

pesticide (n): a..(a)........ substance used to kill harmful insects, small animals, wild plants, and other unwanted organisms

synonym: contaminated

• polluted

• environmental

• clean

• pure