5A IV Intensive Subsistence Agriculture Flashcards
1
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Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
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A form of subsistence farming characteristics of Asia’s major population concentrations in which farmers must expend a large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a small portion of land
2
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Double Cropping
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Harvesting twice a year from the same field
3
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Wet Rice
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Rice planted on dry land and then moved to a flooded field
4
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Sawah
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A flooded field for growing rice
5
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Paddy
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The malay word for wet rice; used to describe a sawah
6
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Crop Rotation
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The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year to avoid exhausting the soil
