farming system
81factory farming — N UNCOUNT Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk. [mainly BRIT] …
82Pacific mountain system — ▪ mountains, North America Introduction series of mountain ranges that stretches along the Pacific coast (Coast Ranges) of North America from northern British Columbia (Canada) to northwestern Mexico. They run for some 4,500 miles (7,250… …
83Household-responsibility system — Responsibility system (contract responsibility system or household responsibility system) (simplified Chinese: 家庭联产承包责任制; traditional Chinese: 家庭聯產承包責任制; pinyin: Jiātíng liánchǎn chéngbāo zérènzhì) was a practice in the People s Republic of China …
84Agrarian system — An agrarian system is a concept used to describe the dynamic set of economic and technological factors that affect agricultural practices. It is premised on the idea that different systems have developed depending on the natural and social… …
85Differential Global Positioning System — DGPS Referenzantenne (Choke Ring Antenne) Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS, „Globales Positionssystem (mit) Differential(signal)“) ist eine Bezeichnung für Verfahren, die durch das Ausstrahlen von Korrekturdaten (Bahn und Zeitsystem)… …
86fruit farming — Introduction growing of fruit crops, including nuts, primarily for use as human food. The subject of fruit and nut production deals with intensive culture of perennial plants, the fruits of which have economic significance (a nut is a …
87Tigris-Euphrates river system — ▪ river system, Asia Introduction great river system of Southwest Asia, comprising the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which have their sources within 50 miles (80 km) of each other in eastern Turkey and travel southeast through northern Syria and… …
88Xi River system — ▪ river system, China Introduction Chinese (Pinyin) Xi Jiang or (Wade Giles romanization) Hsi Chiang (“West River”), conventional Si Kiang system of rivers that combine to form the longest river of southern China. Together with its upper …
89open-field system — ▪ agriculture basic community organization of cultivation in European agriculture for 2,000 years or more. Its best known medieval form consisted of three elements: individual peasant holdings in the form of strips scattered among the… …
90Oligo-Nunk Cave System — The Oligo Nunk Cave System is a group of a half dozen caves in Kentucky, United States. History The group of caves on Honeycomb Mountain offered to both the mere pleasure seeker and to those interested in geological investigation and research,… …
