what is harvesting?
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Harvest Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulse for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper. On smaller farms with minimal mechanization, harvesting is the most labor-intensive activity of the growing season.
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What Is Cultivation? Definition of Cultivation for Happy Plants and Healthy Soil. Cultivation, also known as tilling or soil refinement, is the act of digging into or cutting up an existing soil bed to better prepare it for planting. You might use a tractor, a rototiller or hand tools like a shovel or soil fork. Typically, farmers add amendments when they cultivate soil to boost its nourishment.
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- Straw is a commodity that is a by-product of harvesting certain grains. It can be collected and turned into bales. See the version specific links for more information. Categories :
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Reaper A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps crops at harvest, when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass. All mechanical reapers cut the grass; most also gather it, either by windrowing it or picking it up. Modern machines that not only cut and gather the grass but also thresh its seeds, winnow the grain, and deliver it to a truck or wagon it are called combine harvesters or simply combines; they are the engineering descendants of earlier reapers. Hay is harvested some
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HARVEST harvest time; harvest Hypernyms (harvest is a kind of...): season; time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions)
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Energy harvesting Energy harvesting ( also known as power harvesting or energy scavenging or ambient power ) is the process by which energy is derived from external sources ( e.g. , solar power , thermal energy , wind energy , salinity gradients , and kinetic energy , also known as ambient energy ) , captured , and stored for small , wireless autonomous devices , ...
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- While gleaning, like farming in the county, is a year-round endeavor, demand is greatest when there are food baskets to fill for the holidays. volunteers glean crops to feed needy Gleaning is the ancient practice of harvesting or gathering leftover produce from farmers' fields.
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Glean To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man. That the main harvest reaps. - Shak.
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- Harvest constitutes a major operation among agricultural activities. Considered for a long time as the last step in production, it must rather be approached as the first one in the postproduction system, because of its influence on subsequent processing and preservation of the products.
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- harvest verb [I or T] (BODY PARTS). › to take ​cells or other ​body ​parts from someone for ​medical use: The ​donor ​organ is harvested at the ​accident ​scene and ​rushed to a ​hospital. There is a lot of ​controversy ​surrounding the harvesting of ​stem ​cells.
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Combine harvester Combine harvester. The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that combines the tasks of harvesting, threshing, and cleaning grain crops. The objective is the harvest of the crop; corn (maize), soybeans, flax (linseed), oats, wheat, or rye among others).
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What is cultivation? A cultivator is a garden or farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil for aeration, weed control, and the conservation of moisture.
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- Definition of exploitation. : an act or instance of exploiting exploitation of natural resources exploitation of immigrant laborers clever exploitation of the system.
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On the Cultural History of Opium â and how poppy came to Afghanistan (2) Harvesting opium is a labour intensive task, as it requires each poppy head or pod to be incised several times over a few days. It is estimated that, during the harvest season, up to 300,000 seasonal labourers work on the large opium fields of Afghanistan.
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- For a broader coverage related to this topic, see Data scraping. Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites. This is accomplished by either directly implementing the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (on which the Web is based), or embedding a web browser. Web scraping is closely related to web indexing, which indexes information on the web using a bot or web crawler and is a universal technique adopted by most search engines.
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- Rainwater harvesting is the cap ture, diversion, and storage of rainwater for a. number of different purposes including. landscape irrigation, drinking and. domestic use, aquifer recharge, and. stormwater abatement.
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Threshing Threshing is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the husks and straw to which it is attached. It is the step in grain preparation after reaping and before winnowing, which separates the grain from the chaff. Threshing does not remove the bran from the grain.
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Definitions &Translations Collect(verb) a short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. Origin: [LL. collecta, fr. L. collecta a collection in money; an assemblage, fr. collerige: cf.
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TIMBER HARVESTING Timber Harvesting Techniques. The main purpose of timber harvesting is to create conditions that will allow the forest to renew or reproduce itself. When trees are removed, the canopy is opened and new trees are allowed to regenerate. Also, removing trees creates more space for mast producing trees to grow.
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- a harvesting machine for stripping the seed heads from the stalks of grain. 5. a machine used in harvesting cotton to strip the bolls from the plants. 6. a chemical solution that removes varnish, paint, wax, etc., from a surface, as of furniture or flooring.
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HARVEST • HARVEST (noun) The noun HARVEST has 4 senses: 1. the yield from plants in a single growing season. 2. the consequence of an effort or activity. 3. the gathering of a ripened crop. 4. the season for gathering crops. Familiarity information: HARVEST used as a noun is uncommon.
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- yielding, high quality alfalfa crop. The goals of harvesting are to cut alfalfa at the growth stage that provides the optimum combi-nation of yield and quality and to maintain quality and minimize losses through proper preservation. All of the efforts that go into producing high-quality alfalfa can be nullified if the crop is not
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HARVEST The noun HARVEST has 4 senses: 1. the yield from plants in a single growing season. 2. the consequence of an effort or activity. 3. the gathering of a ripened crop. 4. the season for gathering crops. Familiarity information: HARVEST used as a noun is uncommon.he noun HARVEST has 4 senses: 1. the yield from plants in a single growing season. 2. the consequence of an effort or activity. 3. the gathering of a ripened crop. 4. the season for gathering crops. Familiarity information: HARVEST used as a noun is uncommon.
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impact of mining on environment Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner.
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harvest 1 : the season for gathering in agricultural crops the beginning of the harvest. 2 : the act or process of gathering in a crop assisting neighbors in their harvest.
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- Rainwater harvesting is the accumulation and deposition of rainwater for reuse on-site, rather than allowing it to run off.