My Vocabulary #2

• Biotechnology: The use of genetically engineered crops in agriculture and DNA manipulation in livestock in order to increase product.
• Capital-intensive agriculture: Form of agriculture that uses mechanical good such as  machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods.
• Chaff: Husks of grain separated from the seed by threshing.
• Commercial Agriculture: Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm.
• Crop Rotation: The process of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
• Desertification: Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
• Extensive Agriculture: An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area. 
• Green Revolution: Rapid diffusion of new agriculture technology, especially new high-yield seeds and fertilizers. 
• Hull: The outer covering of a seed.
• Intensive Cultivation: Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficient use of labor on small plots of land to maximize crop yield. 
• Labor-intensive Agriculture: Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful.
• Luxury Crops: Crops not grown for sustenance to include tea, coffee, cacao, and tobacco.
• Vegetative Planting: Reproduction of plants by direct cloning from existing plants.
• Plantation Agriculture: When cash crops are grown on large estates. 
• Furrow: A long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow, especially for planting seeds or for irrigation.
• Mulch: A material (such as decaying leaves, bark, or compost) spread around or over a plant to enrich or insulate the soil. 
• Metallurgy: The technique of separating metals from their ores.