crop cultivation

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• Crop rotation — Fallow redirects here. For other uses, see Fallow (disambiguation). Satellite image of circular crop fields in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows …   Wikipedia

• cultivation — (n.) c.1700, of knowledge, etc., a figurative use, from Fr. cultivation (16c.), noun of action from cultiver, from L. cultivare to till (see CULTIVATE (Cf. cultivate)). Meaning raising of a plant or crop is from 1719; literal sense of tilling of… …   Etymology dictionary

• Cultivation of tobacco — Part of a series on Tobacco …   Wikipedia

• crop rotation — the system of varying successive crops in a definite order on the same ground, esp. to avoid depleting the soil and to control weeds, diseases, and pests. [1905 10] * * * Successive cultivation of different crops in a specified order on the same… …   Universalium

• Crop breeding in Nepal — Contents 1 Crop improvement in Nepal 2 National Organizations 3 Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives 4 Department of Plant Bree …   Wikipedia

• crop — 01. Farmers fear that this season s entire [crop] may have been destroyed in the storm. 02. Marijuana is one of the biggest selling [crops] grown in this country. 03. One of the major money making [crops] of Southern Ontario is tobacco. 04. The… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Crop yield — In agriculture, crop yield (also known as agricultural output ) is not only a measure of the yield of cereal per unit area of land under cultivation, yield is also the seed generation of the plant itself (e.g. one wheat grain produces a stalk… …   Wikipedia

• cultivation — cultivate UK US /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/ verb [T] ► PRODUCTION to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop: »Corn, or maize, is indigenous to Mexico and has been cultivated there for some 6,000 years. ► to try to develop and improve… …   Financial and business terms

• crop — Noun: A product of the soil, anything produced from the earth by planting, cultivation and labor; either a gathered or a growing crop. 21 Am J2d Crops § 1; goods within the definition of the Uniform Commercial Code. UCC § 2 105(1). The term crop… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• cultivation paddock — /kʌltəˈveɪʃən ˌpædək/ (say kultuh vayshuhn .paduhk) noun 1. a paddock which is kept specifically for cropping. 2. a paddock ploughed, or sown to a crop. Also, cultivation …  

• cultivation — /kul teuh vay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or art of cultivating. 2. the state of being cultivated. 3. culture; refinement. [1690 1700; CULTIVATE + ION] Syn. 3. gentility, breeding, taste. * * * Loosening and breaking up (tilling) of the soil. The soil …   Universalium