Farming key words

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  • Created on: 25-03-15 14:59
Farming designed to maximise yield of produce by making use of any appropriate technology
intensive farming
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Farming with minimum input from the farmer, e.g. upland sheep farming
Extensive farming
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Farming that uses few agrochemicals and so does not pollute the environment
organic farming
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Farming for the farmer's own needs rather than for profit. Today mainly carried out in third-world countries
Subsistence farming
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Raising livestock indoors in large numbers to increase productivity
factory farming
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growing a single crop in a field
monoculture
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growing many different crops in the same space, imitating the diversity of a natural ecosystem
polyculture
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a farm that grows crops
arable
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a farm that grows animals; the pasture is the grass that is grazed
pastoral
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a farm that grows both plants and animals
mixed
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collective name for chemicals applied to crop and animals, including fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, dips
agrochemicals
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Farming with minimum input from the farmer, e.g. upland sheep farming

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Extensive farming

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Farming that uses few agrochemicals and so does not pollute the environment

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Farming for the farmer's own needs rather than for profit. Today mainly carried out in third-world countries

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Raising livestock indoors in large numbers to increase productivity

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