Rural Unit- Definitions Flashcards

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Arable Farming

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Farming which specialises in producing crops e.g wheat,barley,rice

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Over-Cultivation

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The excessive use of farmland to the point where productivity falls due to soil exhaustion

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Yields

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How many crops a particular field, farm or area of land produces. It also applies to milk ( yields) from dairy cows

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Subsistence farming

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Farming which uses simple technology and the production of food for the individual farmer’s family is the priority. There is often no food left to sell

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Irrigation

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The artificial watering of the land

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Intensive Farming

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Farming over a large area of land, field sizes are very large

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Agriculture

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The work of growing crops or rearing animals

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Extensive farming

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Farming over a small area of land, field sizes are small

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Soil erosion

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The loss of soil from a field’s surface by the action of wind or water often accelerated by human actions

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Commercial Farming

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Farming which for a profit. Growing crops or rearing animals for sale

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