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cultivator
cultivator agricultural implement for stirring and pulverizing the soil, either before planting or to remove weeds and to aerate and loosen the soil after the crop has begun to grow. The cultivator usually stirs the soil to a greater depth than does the harrow . See cultivation .
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Cultivation and the elaboration likelihood model: a test of the learning and construction and availability heuristic models.
Magazine article from: Communication Studies; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...society resulting in powerful cultivation effects such as a perception of...and scary world. This theory of cultivation rests on two foundational assumptions...To date, though, only a weak cultivation effect has been documented in...
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Crime cultivation: comparisons across media genres and channels.(Survey)
Magazine article from: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and methodological foundations of the cultivation hypothesis, the core idea, that people...One of the most prominent topics of cultivation research is crime. Theory in this area...message-specific influences on the cultivation process. The study reported here focuses...
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Wet rice cultivation and the Kayanic peoples of East Kalimantan: some possible factors explaining their preference for dry rice cultivation (1). (Research Notes).
Magazine article from: Borneo Research Bulletin; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Indonesian islands, wet rice cultivation has been encouraged by government...which often equates dry rice cultivation with "traditional", "extensive...of land", whereas wet rice cultivation is equated with "modern...
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Risk in HYV and traditional rice cultivation: An enquiry in West Bengal agriculture
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...high-yielding varieties (HYV) cultivation in the production of foodgrains is...persistence of incomplete adoption of HYV cultivation, the farmers' aversion to higher risk associated with HYV cultivation has often been emphasised (Feder...
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The Cultivation System (1830-1870) and its private entrepreneurs on colonial Java.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Dutch King William I introduced the Cultivation System in 1830 to restore the profitability...Binnenlands Bestuur) supervising the forced cultivation of cash crops for European markets...British India for example, under the Cultivation System (1830-70) private European...
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Personality traits, television viewing, and the cultivation effect.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; More than three decades of cultivation research support small, though...processing of media fare. Although much cultivation literature focuses on determining...to influence the elicitation of cultivation effects has been ignored. This...
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Sustainability in danger? Slash-and-burn cultivation in nineteenth-century Finland and twentieth-century southeast Asia
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...that straightforward. Slash-and-burn cultivation-also called shifting cultivation or swiddening-has been practiced all over...many researchers today agree that shifting cultivation can be a sustainable farming system when well...
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Structural Changes over Time in Cost of Cultivation of Major Rabi Crops in Rajasthan
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...study is based on estimates of cost of cultivation of major rabi crops in Rajasthan for...nineties under centrally sponsored cost of cultivation studies in the state. Data for the...obtained from the reports of Cost of Cultivation of Principal Crops in India and also...
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UNODC announces major reduction in 2005 opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan; UNODC Executive Director says one field out of five cultivated in 2004 was not replanted in 2005.
M2 Presswire; 8/30/2005; 700+ words
; ...major reduction in 2005 opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan; UNODC Executive Director...Crime (UNODC) disclosed 2005 opium cultivation, eradication and production estimates...today. According to the report, opium cultivation in Afghanistan has decreased by 21 per...
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Punjab farmers reaping rich dividends with Mushroom cultivation
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/22/2007; 700+ words
; ...kilometers of Amritsar, have taken to mushroom cultivation. Mushroom cultivation is known to be a commercially valuable spore...is one such individual who took to mushroom cultivation for the first time here. Having achieved success...
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cultivation
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cultivation tilling or manipulation of the soil...with crops for water and nutrients. Cultivation may be used in crusted soils to increase...to or away from plants as desired. Cultivation among crop plants is best kept at a...
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shifting cultivation
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
shifting cultivation ( slash-and-burn agriculture ) The traditional agricultural system...climax woodland, and soil fertility is gradually restored. Shifting cultivation of this type was once practised world-wide but in modern times...
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path of cultivation
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
path of cultivation. See Bhāvanā-mārga ; Pañca-mārga .
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Slash-and-Burn Agriculture
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...a much more ancient system known as shifting cultivation. Shifting cultivation has long been used by humans for subsistence...between the slash-and-burn system and shifting cultivation is in the length of time for which the land is...
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Swidden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...associated with patterns of shifting cultivation or extensive agriculture via which...and-burn field preparation, cultivation, and fallow, and the necessity of shifting or relocating cultivation to adjacent or new fields on a cyclical...
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