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- Practices and techniques employed in agriculture to improve yields and productivity. Over the last few decades they have undergone big changes: tilling, sowing and harvesting have become increasingly mechanised, and the methods of applying fertilisers and pesticides have become more sophisticated. Many changes within the agricultural system can be summed up by "intensification". The result and aim of intensification has been to achieve increases in production, yields and labour productivity in agriculture.
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- composting
- controlled burning
- crop rotation
- crop treatment
- cultivation of agricultural land
- cutting (vegetative propagation)
- draining
- farming technique
- irrigation
- manure production
- market gardening
- mowing
- phytosanitary treatment
- pressing
- pruning
- shifting cultivation
- soil fertilisation
- spurting
- utilisation of pesticides
- working the soil
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