Intensive Subsistence Agriculture Flashcards
What’s intensive subsistence agriculture
Farmers work intensively to subsist on a parcel of land
where
east south southesat asia
densely populated
why do they have to be intensive
they dont own a lot of land-small fragments
whats wet rice mean?
practice of planting rice on dry land in a nursery and then moving the seedlings to a flooded fieldd
wet rice intensive is most cominant where
southeast china
southeast asia
east india
steps to growing rice
1-plow the field with an animal
2-flood the field
3 grow seedlings in a nursery on dryland
4-tansplant seedlings to flooded field
whats a sawah
a flooded field
whats a paddy
a flooded field
difference between”sawah” and
“paddy’
sawah=correct
paddy=wet rice (incorrect)
stepd to collecting rice
1- by ahnd with knives
seperate husks from the seeds
2-beat the rice on the ground or trample them to seperate chaff from seeds
3- threshed rice is put in a tray and the lighter chaff is winnowed
4-to consume directly, remove the hull by mortar and pestle
5-commecial rice is whitened and polished (removing nutrients0
whats a chaff
the husk of a rice plant
whats threshed mea?
beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
what does winnowed mean?
blown aways
-like the husk of the plantis blown away, leaving just the seeds
whats a hull?
outer covering of the seed
how is the hull removed
mortar and pestle
