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Unit Vocabulary 1. Agribusiness general term for the business that proved the vase array of goods and services that support the agriculture industry 2. Agriculture the purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber 3. Animal domestication genetic modification of an animal such that it is rendered more amenable to human control 4. Cadastral map a large-scale map, usuallly created at the scale of 1:2500, depicting the value, extent, and ownership of land for purposes of taxation 5. Commercial farming (agriculture) term used to describe large scale farming and ranching operations tat employ vase land vases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology 6. Dairying (dairy farming) the most important type of commercial agriculture in the first ring outside of major cities because of transportation factors 7. First Agricultural Revolution dating back 10,000 years, the First Agricultural Revloution achieved plant and animal domestication 8. Green Revolution the recently successful development of higher-yield, fast growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries, which led to increased production per unit area and a dramatic narrowing of the gap between population growth and food needs 9. Livestock ranching the raising of domesticated animals for the production of meat and other hyproducts such as leather and wool 10. Luxury crops non-subsistence crops such as tea, cacao, coffee, and tobacco 11. Mediterranean agriculture specialized farming that occurs only in areas where the dry-summer Mediterranean climate prevails 12. Organic agriculture approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and similar synthetic products 13. Plant domestication genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention 14. Plantation agriculture production system based on a large estate owned by an individual, family, or corporation and organized to produce a cash crop. Almost all plantation were established within the tropics; in recent decades many have been divided into smaller holdings or reorganized as cooperatives