agriculture

1. A large-scale farming enterprise (synset 101106311)
   is a type of: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
   same as: agribusiness, factory farm
2. The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock (synset 100918295)
   associated with:

   • cultivation - (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
   • smut - affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
   • feed, fertilise, fertilize - provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
   • thrash, thresh - beat the seeds out of a grain
   • seed, sow - place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
   • broadcast - sow over a wide area, especially by hand
   • inseminate, sow, sow in - place seeds in or on (the ground)
   • reseed - seed again or anew
   • farm, grow, produce, raise - cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
   • carry - bear (a crop)
   • till - work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
   • crop, cultivate, work - prepare for crops
   • overcrop, overcultivate - to exhaust by excessive cultivation
   • plough, plow, turn - to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
   • ridge - plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip
   • disk, harrow - draw a harrow over (land)
   • hoe - dig with a hoe
   • cultivate - foster the growth of
   is a type of: cultivation - (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
   subtypes:

   • animal husbandry - breeding and caring for farm animals
   • arboriculture, tree farming - the tending of and caring for trees
   • dairy farming, dairying - the business of a dairy
   • gardening, horticulture - the cultivation of plants
   • aquiculture, hydroponics, tank farming - a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients
   • mixed farming - growing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm
   • planting - putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow
   • ranching - farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle)
   • strip cropping - cultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion
   • subsistence farming - farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing
   • truck farming - growing vegetables for the market
   has:

   • tilling - cultivation of the land in order to raise crops
   • harvest, harvest time - the season for gathering crops
   same as: farming, husbandry
3. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy);
   Created in 1862 (synset 108145946)
   is a type of: executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
   same as: agriculture department, department of agriculture, usda
4. The class of people engaged in growing food (synset 108092123)
   is a type of: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum - people having the same social, economic, or educational status

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