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Cultivation may refer to: The state of having or expressing a good education , refinement, culture, or high culture; Gardening; The controlled growing of organisms by humans Agriculture, the land-based cultivation and breeding of plants (known as crops), fungi and domesticated animals
Photo showing piece of agricultural land irrigated and ploughed for paddy cultivation Share of land area used for agriculture, OWID. Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture, [1] the systematic and controlled use of other forms of life—particularly the rearing of livestock and production of crops—to produce food for humans.
Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and more controlled scale than agronomy. There are various divisions of horticulture because plants are grown for a variety of purposes. [ 1 ]
(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...
"Tillage" can also mean the land that is tilled. The word "cultivation" has several senses that overlap substantially with those of "tillage". In a general context, both can refer to agriculture. Within agriculture, both can refer to any kind of soil agitation.
Self-cultivation, Confucius expects, is an essential philosophical process for one to become jūnzǐ by maximising rén. He aims to reflect upon a self that is able to compare itself with moral and social principles of tradition. [clarification needed] Confucius does not suffer from the Cartesian "mind-body problem". In Confucianism, there is ...
Shifting cultivation (or slash and burn) is a system in which forests are burnt, releasing nutrients to support cultivation of annual and then perennial crops for a period of several years. [144] Then the plot is left fallow to regrow forest, and the farmer moves to a new plot, returning after many more years (10–20).
Viticulture (Latin: vitis cultura, "vine-growing"), [1] viniculture (vinis cultura, "wine-growing"), [2] or winegrowing [3] is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture .