Important Terms

Agriculture: It is an economic activity related to cultivation of crops, animal rearing and fishing.

Commercial Farming: Farming in which crops are grown with the use of modern technology mainly for commercial purposes to obtain high productivity.

Green Revolution: A package programme to increase the productivity of food grains with the help of HYV seeds, machines, irrigation and fertilizers, etc.

Horticulture: Specialized cultivation of fruits and vegetables.

Kharif: An agricultural season where crops are grown with the onset of rains and harvested by the retreat of the monsoon, mainly June to September.

Plantation Agriculture: A large scale single crop farming which resembles factory production. It is both labour intensive and capital intensive.

Primitive Subsistence Farming: A type of farming done on small fields using primitive tools mainly in the form of shifting agriculture.

White Revolution: A package programme meant for increasing the productivity of milk.

Sericulture: Rearing of silkworms to produce raw silk.

Zaid: It is a short season summer crop where fruits like watermelon and vegetables like cucumber are grown.