Chapter 9 Agriculture Vocabulary

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

• Ranching

• Agribusiness

• Milkeshed

• Plantation

The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no linger relied entirely on hunting and gathering 

• First Agricultural Revolution

• Second Agricultural Revolution

• Third Agricultural Revolution

• Green Revolution

The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil

• Subsistence Agriculture

• Slash/Burn Farming

• Double Cropping

• Crop Rotation

Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.

• Agricultural Revolution

• Commercial Agriculture

• Truck Farming

• Agribusiness

Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions.

• Desertification

• Slash/Burn Farming

• Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

• Pastoral Nomadism

Harvesting twice a year from the same field.

• Plantation

• Shifting Cultivation

• Double Cropping

• Green Revolution

A living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology

• Genetically Mutated Crop

• Truck Farming

• Wet Rice

• Genetically Modified Crop (GMO)

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

• GMO

• Green Revolution

• Second Agricultural Revolution

• First Agricultural Revolution

A form of subsistence agriculture in which farmers must expend relatively large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a parcel of land. Found Primarily in rice paddies in Southeast Asia.

• Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

• Extensive Subsistence Agriculture

• Intensive Commercial Agriculture

• Extensive Commercial Agriculture

The area surrounding the city from which milk is supplied.

• Plantation

• Milkshed

• Aquaculture

• Dairy Farming