agriculture

Cultivating land systematically

Agriculture is the practice of cultivating land and raising animals for food, fiber, and other products.

It encompasses farming crops, raising livestock, and the broader systems of production that feed populations.

The region's economy depends on agriculture.

Agricultural can describe anything related to farming: agricultural policy, agricultural land.

farming

plow

Tool for turning soil

crop · soil · tillage · livestock · barn · manure · pasture · combine · harvester · sower

landscape

farmland

Agricultural terrain

fallow · terraces · paddock · field · meadow · orchard · vineyard · plantation · ranch · smallholding

livestock

cattle

Domesticated bovines kept commercially

goats · dairy · ranching · grazing · herding · breeding · feedlot · pasture · fodder · silage

harvest

reaping

Cutting crops for collection

gleaning · winnowing · sickle · scythe · picking · husking · baler · bushel · granary · silo

technology

precision

Accuracy of measurement

  • agritechFarm-focused technological solutions
  • dronesUnmanned aerial vehicles
  • GPSSatellite-based location technology

automation · hydroponics · aeroponics · GMO · CRISPR · bioengineering · genomics · mechanization · greenhouse

crops

wheat

Cereal crop for flour

  • riceStaple cereal grain
  • maizeCob-bearing cereal crop
  • cornCereal grown on cobs

sorghum · barley · oats · soybeans · cotton · sugarcane · cassava · millet · legumes · pulses

sustainability

organic

From living matter

composting · agroforestry · conservation · biodiversity · pollinators · no-till · agroecology · intercropping · terracing

rural

peasantry

Rural working class

landholding · homesteading · subsistence · sharecropping · cooperative · commune · farmworker

Categories
Opposites
food acquisition method

agriculturehunting and gathering

Nomadic food acquisition method

foraging · hunting · gathering · fishing · wild harvesting

land use and economic sector

agricultureindustry

Economic production sector

manufacturing · industrialization · urbanization · commerce · mining

human relationship with nature

agriculturewilderness

Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region

wild nature · conservation · rewilding · nature preservation · preservation

Phrases
Family

agricultural, agriculturist, agriculturally, agriculturalist, agriculturalists

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G