- Industry: Agriculture
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A soil amendment consisting principally of calcium carbonate but including magnesium carbonate and perhaps other materials. This is used to furnish calcium and magnesium as elements for the growth of plants and to neutralize soil acidity.
Industry:Agriculture
The whole structured set of plants, animals, and activities selected by a farmer for his production unit to achieve its goals. It is a global system that is finalized by farmer socioeconomic objectives and related management strategy.
Industry:Agriculture
The practice of cultivation, farming, tillage and horticulture; plant and animal production.
Industry:Agriculture
Mucilage derived from a seaweed. It forms a gel with water. It is used to solidify culture media on which microorganisms are grown.
Industry:Agriculture
Rice that is kept at least 4 mo after harvest. Expands more on cooking and less sticky than cooked, freshly harvested rice.
Industry:Agriculture
A historically constituted and durable mode of exploitation of the environment; a technical system adapted to the bioclimatic conditions of a given area and which complies with its social conditions and needs at that moment.
Industry:Agriculture
The partial biological decomposition of suspended organic matter in waste water or sewage under aerated conditions.
Industry:Agriculture
A technique in growing plants wherein the plants derive their nutrients and water from a mist of air and aqueous solution that come in contact with the roots.
Industry:Agriculture
