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Cage culture

Agriculture; General agriculture

The production method for raising aquatic species using enclosures made of wire or netting around rigid frames which are placed in water.

Strip cropping

Agriculture; General agriculture

The growing of crops in a systematic arrangement of strips or bands which serve as vegetative barriers to wind and water erosion. The strips or bands may run perpendicular to the slope of the land or ...

Forest canopy

Agriculture; General agriculture

The more or less continuous cover of upper branches and foliage of forest trees which is exposed to sunlight and restricts the sunlight from reaching the understory and the forest floor.

Flatware

Agriculture; General agriculture

The assortment of knives, forks, spoons and other implements used for eating.

Canopy

Agriculture; General agriculture

The more or less continuous layer of vegetation formed by the foliage and branches of plants.

Reciprocal crosses

Agriculture; General agriculture

A pair of crosses where the first cross is the progeny of breeding a male from population A with a female from population B, and the second cross is the progeny of breeding a male from population B ...

Relay cropping

Agriculture; General agriculture

The seeding of one crop into another standing crop, e.g., winter wheat into standing soybeans. A practise of starting one crop in another.

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