Unit 4 vocab Flashcards
Intensive agriculture
Agriculture that requires a lot of labor
Market gardening
Local farmers selling crops to local people
Extensive agriculture
Lot of land but not a lot of labor
Nomadic herding
Constant movement of livestock to search for food
Plantation agriculture
Large from specialized in one or two crops
Shifting cultivation
Clearing, farming, abandoning, and repeating.
Transhumance
Seasonal heading of animals to high elevations in summer to low in winter
Ranching
Raising of livestock
Subsistence Agriculture
The production only to feed the farmers family
Commercial Agriculture
Growing crops for profit
Dairy farming
Raising cows for milk not meat
Milk shed
The area surrounding a city from which milk is supplied
Grain farming
farming for grain
Mediterranean Agriculture
Farming only occurring in areas where any summer mediterranean climate prevails
Mixed crop and livestock
Crops that are grown to feed their animals
Monocropping
Focus on growing one crop and continue growing on the land
Monoculture
Plant, harvest, then leave the land alone. only grows one plant
Bid rend
The closer you are to a city the higher $$ the land is
Mechanized farming
Farming with tec
Genetically modified organism
A process changing the DNA of seed to get larger crops.
Third agricultural revolution
The richer countries that can afford new equipment
yield
what you get out of the land
hybridization
mixing the DNA of two to create better something
Green Revolution
For less developed countries. (this happens later)
Commodity chain
Anything you have is apart of the commodity chain
Economics of scale
Cost benefit if your buying in bulk
primary sector
anything dealing with raw materials
agribusiness
Any business dealing with agriculture
transnational corporations
Corresperations that extend pass boundaries
supply chain
all of the services to make
luxury crop
any crop not needed for human survival
fair trade movement
the workers/ land are treated better
subsidies
money given from government to farmers
