Agriculture Definition–noun | 1. | the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming. | | 2. | the production of crops, livestock, or poultry. | |
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Related topics from Britannicatill-less agriculture
cultivation technique in which the soil is disturbed only along the slit or in the hole into which the seeds are planted; reserved detritus from previous crops covers and protects the seedbed. The ...
extensive agriculture
in agricultural economics, system of crop cultivation using small amounts of labour and capital in relation to area of land being farmed. The crop yield in extensive agriculture depends primarily on ...
intensive agriculture
in agricultural economics, system of cultivation using large amounts of labour and capital relative to land area. Large amounts of labour and capital are necessary to the application of fertilizer, ...
shifting agriculture
system of cultivation that preserves soil fertility by plot (field) rotation, as distinct from crop rotation. In shifting agriculture a plot of land is cleared and cultivated for a short period of ...
agriculture, origins of
the active production of useful plants or animals in ecosystems that have been created by people. Agriculture has often been conceptualized narrowly, in terms of specific combinations of activities ...
slash-and-burn agriculture
method of cultivation often used by tropical-forest root-crop farmers in various parts of the world and by dry-rice cultivators of the forested hill country of Southeast Asia. Areas of the forest are ...
Food and Agriculture Organization
oldest permanent specialized agency of the United Nations, established in October 1945 with the objective of eliminating hunger and improving nutrition and standards of living by increasing ...
Agriculture and Food Supplies
World agricultural production (see Table I) increased a little over 2% in 1994, according to preliminary estimates of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The recovery ...
Agriculture and Food Supplies
(For Selected Indexes of World Agricultural and Food Production, see Table I.)Agriculture and Food Supplies
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