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General agriculture
General terms related to agriculture that do not fit any other product category.
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Radiocarbon dating
Agriculture; General agriculture
The determination of the age of an organic substance by measuring the loss rate of radiocarbon (carbon-14). The method is based on the principle that all living plants and animals take in small ...
Raster data
Agriculture; General agriculture
A type of spatial data that is represented in a two-dimensional matrix where the value stored for each cell corresponds to a specific characteristic of the location.
Spatial data
Agriculture; General agriculture
Information pertaining to the location, spatial dimensions and relationships of objects in multidimensional space, and may be represented as points, lines, areas, surfaces, polygons or pixels with ...
Cover crops
Agriculture; General agriculture
A crop grown between periods of regular production of the main crop for the purposes of protecting the soil from erosion and improving soil productivity, health and quality.
Multiple cropping
Agriculture; General agriculture
The growing of more than one crop consecutively in the same field in a single year.
Companion crops
Agriculture; General agriculture
Crops that are compatible with each other and are grown at the same time on the same land.
Monoxenic culture
Agriculture; General agriculture
A culture containing one species growing in the presence of one other species.
