Agriculture, livestock and fishing
Plot: on area of land where crops are grown.
Soil: the substance on the surface of the Earth in which plants grow, produced mainly by the weathering of rock.
Crop rotation: the practice of growing different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons This method improves soil fertility and resistance to disease and pests.
Intensive agriculture: an agricultural system characterized by heavy investments of capital and labour.
Extensive agriculture: an agricultural system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilisers and capital, relative to the area of land that is being farmed.
Dryland farming: farming in which the fields receive only rainwater.
Irrigated farming: farming in which water from groundwater, reservoirs or rivers is brought to fields.
Polyculture: farming system in which the land is divided up into small crops where the farmers can grow a variety of crops.
Monoculture: farming system in which farmers grow a single crop.
Greenhouses: a building, usually made of glass, for the cultivation of plants under controlled conditions.
Subsistence agriculture: a type of agriculture in which farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families.
Shifting cultivation: a type of a subsistence agriculture technique that involves cutting and burning forest or savannah to create fields.
Livestock farming: farming based on rearing animals to obtain products such as meat, milk, eggs, leather, natural fertiliser and wool.
Housed livestock: livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings.
Cattle: cows livestock
Fodder: bulk feed for livestock.
Rear: to care for, breed and grow animals until maturity.
Fishing ground: an area of water that is used for fishing.
Aquaculture: an activity that consists of farming marine animals and plants in pools, ponds or enclosed areas of the coast.
Overfishing: a form of overexploitation in which you catch a lot of tones of fish before they reproduce.
Fleets: a number of warships organized as a tactical unit.
School of fish: group of fish that are together under water.
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