APHG Agriculture Vocab

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

Rice planted on dryland in a nursery, then moved to a deliberately flooded field to promote growth.

Dietary energy consumption that is continuously below the minimum requirement for maintaining a healthy life and carrying out light physical activity.

Commercial gardening and fruit farming, so named for the Middle English word truck, meaning "barter" or "exchange of commodities."

The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.

A patch of land cleared for planting through slashing and burning.

Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family.

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

A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.

A flooded field for growing rice.