Agriculture and Food Production Concepts

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Agribusiness Commercial agriculture characterized by the integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations Agriculture The deliberate effort to modify a portion of the Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain Aquaculture (aquafarming) The cultivation of seafood under controlled conditions Commercial agricultural Agriculture undertaken primarily to generate products for sale off the farm Crop Any plant gathered from a field as a harvest during a particular season Crop rotation The practice 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 such as excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting. Also known as semi arid land degradation Dietary energy consumption The amount of food that an individual consumes, measured in calories Double cropping Harvesting twice a year from the same field Food security Physical, social, and economic a...