Tillage
Scope Note
This category is used to index information on plants cultivated and their relative importance; size of fields; special treatment accorded each crop; intensity of cultivation (e.g., swidden); clearing of land; soil preparation (e.g., hoeing, plowing); use of fertilizers and irrigation; planting; care and protection of growing crops (e.g., weeding, fencing, scarecrows); pest control; tools and implements used; economic importance, and adequacy for needs, of agriculture; organization of labor and production; distribution of products; agricultural beliefs, taboos, and rituals; etc. See also, ANNUAL CYCLE (221).
History Note
Replaced "...intensity of cultuvation (e.g., brand tillage)..." with "(e.g., swidden)" from 6/28/2018 CRE, LGD; Added pointer for Annual Cycle for clarification 2026/3 CRE;
- Broader Term
- 240 Agriculture
- Related Terms
- 221 Annual Cycle
- 311 Land Use
- 312 Water Supply
- 343 Outbuildings
- 387 Fertilizer Industry
- 392 Machine Industries
- 407 Agricultural Machinery
- 410 Tools And Appliances
- 417 Apparatus
- 796 Organized Ceremonial
- Use Fors
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural development
- Agricultural economics
- Agricultural enterprises
- Agricultural history
- Agricultural intensification
- Agricultural labor
- Agricultural market
- Agricultural monoculture (description)
- Agricultural production
- Agricultural terraces (description and use)
- Agricultural trade
- Agriculture (field size)
- Agriculture (intensive)
- Brand tillage
- Burning (to clear fields for agriculture)
- Clearing land for tillage
- Collective farming (agriculture)
- Domestication of plants
- Farming (floodwater)
- Farming (plant agriculture)
- Fences (agricultural)
- Field size in agriculture
- Floodwater farming
- Intensive agriculture
- Irrigation (use in agriculture)
- Land clearing (tillage)
- Milpa agriculture
- Plant domestication
- Planting (agriculture)
- Scarecrows
- Staple crops
- Tillage
- Identifier
- 241
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