Breadbasket, the Glossary
The breadbasket of a country or of a region is an area which, because of the richness of the soil and/or advantageous climate, produces large quantities of wheat or other grain.[1]
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209 relations: Aegean Region (statistical), Africa (Roman province), Agriculture in Australia, Agriculture in Brazil, Agriculture in Bulgaria, Agriculture in Cambodia, Agriculture in Chile, Agriculture in China, Agriculture in Cyprus, Agriculture in Finland, Agriculture in Germany, Agriculture in Indonesia, Agriculture in Latvia, Agriculture in Malaysia, Agriculture in Morocco, Agriculture in Myanmar, Agriculture in New Zealand, Agriculture in Pakistan, Agriculture in Portugal, Agriculture in Romania, Agriculture in Russia, Agriculture in Serbia, Agriculture in South Africa, Agriculture in Spain, Agriculture in Sweden, Agriculture in Syria, Agriculture in Thailand, Agriculture in the Philippines, Agriculture in the United Kingdom, Agriculture in Turkey, Agriculture in Vietnam, Alentejo, Alexandre de Laborde, Almond, American Civil War, Andalusia, Andhra Pradesh, Anglesey, Argentina, Athens, Baeturia, Spain, Barley, Battambang province, Bean, Beauce, France, Beef, Bibimbap, Black Sea, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, British Empire, ... Expand index (159 more) »
- Agricultural terminology
- Grain production
Aegean Region (statistical)
The Aegean Region (Turkish: Ege Bölgesi) (TR3) is a statistical region in Turkey.
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Africa (Roman province)
Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa.
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Agriculture in Australia
Although Australia is mostly arid, the nation is a major agricultural producer and exporter, with over 325,300 people employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing as of February 2015.
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Agriculture in Brazil
The agriculture of Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Brazil's economy.
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Agriculture in Bulgaria
Prior to World War II, agriculture in Bulgaria was the leading sector in the Bulgarian economy.
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Agriculture in Cambodia
Agriculture accounts for 22 percent of Cambodia’s GDP, and employs about 3 million people.
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Agriculture in Chile
Agriculture in Chile encompasses a wide range of different activities due to its particular geography, climate, geology and human factors.
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Agriculture in China
China primarily produces rice, wheat, potatoes, tomato, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed, corn and soybeans.
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Agriculture in Cyprus
Agriculture in Cyprus constituted the backbone of its economy when it achieved its independence in 1960.
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Agriculture in Finland
Agriculture in Finland is characterized by the northern climate and self-sufficiency in most major agricultural products.
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Agriculture in Germany
In 2021, Germany was the third largest importer and exporter of consumer oriented agricultural products worldwide, and by far the most important European market for foreign producers.
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Agriculture in Indonesia
Agriculture in Indonesia is one of the key sectors within the Indonesian economy.
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Agriculture in Latvia
In 2018, Latvia produced 1.4 million tons of wheat; 426 thousand tons of potatoes; 306 thousand tons of barley; 229 thousand tons of rapeseed; 188 thousand tons of oat; 81 thousand tons of rye; 80 thousand tons of beans; and smaller quantities of other agricultural products.
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Agriculture in Malaysia
Agriculture in Malaysia makes up twelve percent of the nation's GDP.
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Agriculture in Morocco
Agriculture in Morocco employs about 40% of the nation's workforce.
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Agriculture in Myanmar
Agriculture in Myanmar (also known as Burma) is the main industry in the country, accounting for 60 percent of the GDP and employing some 65 percent of the labour force.
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Agriculture in New Zealand
In New Zealand, agriculture is the largest sector of the tradable economy.
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Agriculture in Pakistan
Agriculture is considered the backbone of Pakistan's economy, which relies heavily on its major crops.
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Agriculture in Portugal
Agriculture in Portugal is based on small to medium-sized family-owned dispersed units; however, the sector also includes larger-scale intensive farming export-oriented agrobusinesses backed by companies (like Grupo RAR's Vitacress, Sovena, Lactogal, Vale da Rosa, Companhia das Lezírias and Valouro).
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Agriculture in Romania
Romania has an agricultural capacity of approximately 9.38 million are used as arable land.
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Agriculture in Russia
Agriculture in Russia is an important part of the economy of the Russian Federation.
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Agriculture in Serbia
Agriculture in Serbia is an important sector of the Economy of Serbia comprising 6.0% of GDP and is valued at 2.416 billion euros (as of 2017).
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Agriculture in South Africa
Agriculture in South Africa contributes around 5% of formal employment, relatively low compared to other parts of Africa and the number is still decreasing, as well as providing work for casual laborers and contributing around 2.6 percent of GDP for the nation.
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Agriculture in Spain
Agriculture in Spain is important to the national economy.
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Agriculture in Sweden
Agriculture in Sweden differs by region.
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Agriculture in Syria
Despite the crisis in Syria, agriculture remains a key part of the economy.
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Agriculture in Thailand
Agriculture in Thailand is highly competitive, diversified and specialized and its exports are very successful internationally.
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Agriculture in the Philippines
Agriculture in the Philippines is a major sector of the economy, ranking third among the sectors in 2022 behind only Services and Industry.
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Agriculture in the United Kingdom
Agriculture in the United Kingdom uses 69% of the country's land area, employs 1% of its workforce (471,000 people) and contributes 0.5% of its gross value added (£11.2 billion).
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Agriculture in Turkey
Agriculture is still an important sector of Turkey's economy, and the country is one of the world's top ten agricultural producers.
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Agriculture in Vietnam
Agriculture's share of GDP has declined in recent years, falling from 42% in 1989, to 26% in 1999.
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Alentejo
Alentejo is a geographical, historical, and cultural region of south–central and southern Portugal.
Alexandre de Laborde
Comte Louis-Joseph-Alexandre de Laborde (17 September 1773 – 20 October 1842) was a French antiquary, liberal politician and writer, a member of the (1832), under the rubric political economy.
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Almond
The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus.
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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Andalusia
Andalusia (Andalucía) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain.
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.
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Anglesey
Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales.
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Baeturia, Spain
Baeturia, Beturia, or Turdetania was a region in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula (in modern Spain) between the Guadiana and the Guadalquivir rivers.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
Battambang province
Battambang (បាត់ដំបង) is a province of Cambodia in the far northwest of the country.
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Bean
A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food.
Beauce, France
Beauce is a natural region in north-central France, located between the rivers Seine and Loire.
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Beef
Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle (Bos taurus).
Bibimbap
Bibimbap.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária) is a state-owned research corporation affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Canadian Prairies
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada.
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Carniola
Carniola (Kranjska;, Krain; Carniola; Krajna) is a historical region that comprised parts of present-day Slovenia.
Casablanca
Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.
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Castile and León
Castile and León is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
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Central Anatolia Region
The Central Anatolia Region (İç Anadolu Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey.
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Central Black Earth Region
The Central Black Earth Region, also Central-Chernozem Region or Chernozemye (Black Soil Strip) is a segment of the Eurasian Black Earth belt that lies within Central Russia and comprises Voronezh Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Oryol Oblast and Kursk Oblast.
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Cereal
A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.
Chao Phraya River
The Chao Phraya (or; แม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา,, or) is the major river in Thailand, with its low alluvial plain forming the centre of the country.
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Chaouia (Morocco)
The Chaouia (الشاوية.) is a historical and ethno-geographical region of Morocco.
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Chernozem
Chernozem (from r; "black ground"), also called black soil, regur soil or black cotton soil, is a black-colored soil containing a high percentage of humus (4% to 16%) and high percentages of phosphorus and ammonia compounds.
Chilean wheat cycle
In Chilean historiography, the wheat cycle (Spanish: ciclo triguero) refers to two episodes of booming wheat exports and related changes in society and agriculture.
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Chuang Guandong
Chuang Guandong (IPA:; literally "Crashing into Guandong" with Guandong being an older name for Manchuria) is descriptive of the rush of Han people into Manchuria, mainly from the Shandong Peninsula and Zhili, during the hundred-year period beginning in the last half of the 19th century.
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Cocoa bean
The cocoa bean, also known simply as cocoa or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted.
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Coffee
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.
Common sunflower
The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a species of large annual forb of the daisy family Asteraceae.
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Corn Belt
The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwestern United States and part of the Southern United States that, since the 1850s, has dominated corn production in the United States.
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
Crimea
Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.
Danube
The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.
Doukkala
Doukkala is a natural region of Morocco made of fertile plains and forests.
Dunedin (ship)
The Dunedin (1874–90) was the first ship to successfully transport a full cargo of refrigerated meat from New Zealand to England.
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East Anglia
East Anglia is an area in the East of England.
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East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England.
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East of England
The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom.
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East Prussia
East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.
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Economy of France
The economy of France is a highly developed social market economy with notable state participation in strategic sectors.
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Economy of Ukraine
The economy of Ukraine is an emerging, upper-middle income, mixed economy located in Eastern Europe.
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Editorial Universitaria
Editorial Universitaria is Chilean university press based in Santiago.
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Effects of climate change
Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies.
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Effects of climate change on agriculture
There are numerous effects of climate change on agriculture, many of which are making it harder for agricultural activities to provide global food security.
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Eggs as food
Humans and their hominid relatives have consumed eggs for millions of years.
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El Jadida
El Jadida is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located south of the city of Casablanca, in the province of El Jadida and the region of Casablanca-Settat.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Euphrates
The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.
Food system
The term food system describes the interconnected systems and processes that influence nutrition, food, health, community development, and agriculture.
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Four Kingdoms of Andalusia
The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia (cuatro reinos de Andalucía or, in 18th-century orthography, quatro reynos del Andaluzia) was a collective name designating the four kingdoms of the Crown of Castile located in the southern Iberian Peninsula, south of the Sierra Morena.
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Free State (province)
The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.
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Geography of Hungary
Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) is a landlocked country in the southeastern region of Central Europe, bordering the Balkans.
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German Reich
German Reich (lit. German Realm, German Empire, from Deutsches Reich) was the constitutional name for the German nation state that existed from 18 January 1871 to 5 June 1945.
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Gold rush
A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.
Granary
A granary is a storehouse or room in a barn for threshed grain or animal feed. Breadbasket and granary are grain production.
Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.
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Great Hungarian Plain
The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, Alföld or Nagy Alföld) is a plain occupying the majority of the modern territory of Hungary.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
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Guadalquivir
The Guadalquivir (also) is the fifth-longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second-longest river with its entire length in Spain.
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Guadiana
The Guadiana River (also), is an international river defining a long stretch of the Portugal-Spain border, separating Extremadura and Andalusia (Spain) from Alentejo and Algarve (Portugal).
Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
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Haryana
Haryana (ISO: Hariyāṇā) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country.
Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China.
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Henan
Henan is an inland province of China.
Hispania
Hispania (Hispanía; Hispānia) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.
Hispania Baetica
Hispania Baetica, often abbreviated Baetica, was one of three Roman provinces created in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) on 27 BC.
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Honam
Honam (literally "south of the lake") is a region coinciding with the former Jeolla Province in what is now South Korea.
Horta of Valencia
The Horta of Valencia (L'Horta de València; Huerta de Valencia) is a historical comarca of the Valencian Community, in Spain.
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Hwanghae Province
Hwanghae Province (Hwanghae-do) was one of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon era.
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Industrial agriculture
Industrial agriculture is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of crops and animals and animal products like eggs or milk.
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Irrawaddy Delta
The Irrawaddy Delta or Ayeyarwady Delta lies in the Irrawaddy Division, the lowest expanse of land in Myanmar that fans out from the limit of tidal influence at Myan Aung to the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, to the south at the mouth of the Ayeyarwady River.
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded the Manchuria region of the Republic of China on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden incident.
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Java
Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
Jeolla Province
Jeolla Province was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of Joseon in southwestern Korea.
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
Jilin
Jilin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.
Kedah
Kedah, also known by its honorific Darul Aman and historically as Queda, is a state of Malaysia, located in the northwestern part of Peninsular Malaysia.
Kingdom of Granada (Crown of Castile)
The Kingdom of Granada (Reino de Granada) was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile from the conclusion of the Reconquista in 1492 until Javier de Burgos' provincial division of Spain in 1833.
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Kingdom of Seville
The Kingdom of Seville (Reino de Sevilla) was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile since 1248 until Javier de Burgos' provincial division of Spain in 1833.
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Liaoning
Liaoning is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region.
Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.
Ljubljana Marsh
The Ljubljana Marsh (Ljubljansko barje), located south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, is the largest marsh in the country.
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Luzon
Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.
Maize
Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.
Manchukuo
Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945.
Marmara Region
The Marmara Region (Turkish: Marmara Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey.
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Mass migration
Mass migration refers to the migration of large groups of people from one geographical area to another.
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Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta (lit or simply label), also known as the Western Region (Miền Tây) or South-western region (Tây Nam Bộ), is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries.
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Mesaoria
The Mesaoria (Μεσαορία, Mesarya) is a broad, sweeping plain which makes up the north centre of the island of Cyprus.
Mindanao
Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of the same name that also includes its adjacent islands, notably the Sulu Archipelago.
Missouri
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Mohammedia (al-muḥammadiyya), known until 1960 as Fedala (فضالة), is a port city on the west coast of Morocco between Casablanca and Rabat in the region of Casablanca-Settat.
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Monarchy of Spain
The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy (Monarquía Española) is the constitutional form of government of Spain.
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Murcia
Murcia is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country.
Murray–Darling basin
The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river.
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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Nicosia
Nicosia (also known as Lefkosia in Greek and Lefkoşa in Turkish) is the capital and largest city of Cyprus.
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.
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Northeast China
Northeast China, also historically called Manchuria or Songliao, is a geographical region of China.
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Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija, officially the Province of Nueva Ecija (Lalawigan ng Nueva Ecija, also; Probinsia ti Nueva Ecija; Luyag/Probinsia na Nueva Ecija), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region.
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Nut (fruit)
A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible.
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Orange juice
Orange juice is a liquid extract of the orange tree fruit, produced by squeezing or reaming oranges.
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Osvaldo Silva
Osvaldo Silva Galdames (24 May, 1940–2019) was a Chilean historian active within the field of prehistory.
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Overberg
Overberg is a region in South Africa to the east of Cape Town beyond the Hottentots-Holland mountains.
Paddy field
A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Pampas
The Pampas (from the pampa, meaning "plain") are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.
Pasture
Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Pergamino
Pergamino is an Argentine city in the Province of Buenos Aires.
Poniente Almeriense
Poniente Almeriense is a comarca in Almería, Spain.
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Pork
Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the pig (Sus domesticus).
Potash
Potash includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.
Potato
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.
Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.
Punjab
Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.
Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab (abbr. PB) is a province of Pakistan.
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Puppet state
A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside power and subject to its orders.
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Reconquista
The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for "reconquest") or the reconquest of al-Andalus was the successful series of military campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate.
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Refrigeration
Refrigeration is any of various types of cooling of a space, substance, or system to lower and/or maintain its temperature below the ambient one (while the removed heat is ejected to a place of higher temperature).
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Rhodesia
Rhodesia (Rodizha), officially from 1970 the Republic of Rhodesia, was an unrecognised state in Southern Africa from 1965 to 1979.
Rice
Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.
Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.
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Roman Egypt
Roman Egypt; was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641.
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Roman Republic
The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.
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Rosario
Rosario is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
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Salinas Valley
The Salinas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Salinas) is one of the major valleys and most productive agricultural regions in California.
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San Joaquin Valley
The San Joaquin Valley (Valle de San Joaquín) is the southern half of California's Central Valley.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota).
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Scania
Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne, is the southernmost of the historical provinces (landskap) of Sweden.
Scottish Lowlands
The Lowlands (Lallans or Lawlands,; place of the foreigners) is a cultural and historical region of Scotland.
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Semigallia
Semigallia, also spelt Semigalia (Zemgale, Semgallen, Žiemgala, Semigalia, Zemgāl), is one of the Historical Latvian Lands located to the south of the Daugava river and to the north of the Saule region of Samogitia.
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Sergio Villalobos
Sergio Villalobos Rivera (born April 19, 1930) is a Chilean historian, and Chilean National History Award in 1992.
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Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.
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Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Slovenia
Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.
Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
South East England
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
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Southern Dobruja
Southern Dobruja, South Dobruja, or Quadrilateral (translit or simply Добруджа,; Dobrogea de Sud, Cadrilater or Dobrogea Nouă) is an area of north-eastern Bulgaria comprising Dobrich and Silistra provinces, part of the historical region of Dobruja.
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Southwest Finland
Southwest Finland, calqued as Finland Proper (Varsinais-Suomi,; Egentliga Finland), is a region in the southwest of Finland.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Soybean
The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster.
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Strabo
StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
Subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings.
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Sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Tagus
The Tagus (Tajo; Tejo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula.
Telangana
Telangana (ISO) is a state in India situated in the southern-central part of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau.
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
Ulama
In Islam, the ulama (the learned ones; singular ʿālim; feminine singular alimah; plural aalimath), also spelled ulema, are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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Upper Mesopotamia
Upper Mesopotamia constitutes the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East.
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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.
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Uusimaa
Uusimaa (Nyland,; both lit. 'new land') is a region of Finland.
Venado Tuerto
Venado Tuerto (Spanish for One Eyed Deer) is a city in the south-west of the, 322 km from the provincial capital.
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Vojvodina
Vojvodina (Војводина), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe.
Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
West Bengal
West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.
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West Midlands (region)
The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of International Territorial Level for statistical purposes.
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Western Cape
The Western Cape (Wes-Kaap; iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.
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Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
World food crises (2022–present)
During 2022 and 2023 there were food crises in several regions as indicated by rising food prices.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yangtze
Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.
Yellow River
The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth.
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Yorkshire and the Humber
Yorkshire and the Humber is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.
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Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
See also
Agricultural terminology
- Aboiteau
- Andén
- Biennial bearing
- Biofumigation
- Biosolarization
- Breadbasket
- Conserving use acreage
- Convertible husbandry
- Dead hedge
- Degree day
- Dosing
- Earsh
- Emblements
- Fertigation
- Foodshed
- Fructus naturales
- Glyphosate-based herbicides
- Growing region
- Growing season
- Hardiness (plants)
- Hardiness zone
- Hay buck
- Headland (agriculture)
- Hilling
- Horse trading
- Hydroseeding
- Monocropping
- Monoculture
- Podu (agriculture)
- Polyculture
- Puddling (agriculture)
- Sheaf (agriculture)
- Smother crop
- Sprigging
- Storage clamp
- Swathe
- Technology treadmill
- Terminal market
- Terrace (earthworks)
- Threshing stone
- Tillage
- Topping (agriculture)
- Vernalization
- Virtual water
- Waterlogging (agriculture)
- Windrow
- Winkler index
- Yield mapping
- Zafra (agriculture)
Grain production
- Abacarus hystrix
- Breadbasket
- Bushel
- Chaser bin
- Combine harvester
- Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
- Grain bin
- Grain crimping
- Grain damage
- Grain drying
- Grain elevator
- Grain elevators
- Grain entrapment
- Grain for Green
- Grain hopper trailer
- Grain industry of Australia
- Grain quality
- Grain rationing in China
- Grain storage on subsistence farms
- Grain yield monitor
- Granaries
- Granary
- Kom K and Kom W
- Occupational hazards of grain facilities
- Pacific Coast Railway Company Grain Warehouse
- Post-harvest losses (grains)
- Rice production
- Screw conveyor
- Threshing board
- Winnowing
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadbasket
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