What does Farming mean?

Definitions for Farming
ˈfɑr mɪŋfarm·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. farming, agriculture, husbandrynoun

    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

  2. farming, landadjective

    agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life

    "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"

  3. agrarian, agricultural, farming(a)adjective

    relating to rural matters

    "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"

Wiktionary

  1. farmingnoun

    The business of cultivating land, raising stocks etc.

  2. farmingadjective

    Pertaining to the agricultural business.

  3. farmingadjective

    Raising livestock or fish.

  4. Etymology: From farm + -ing

Wikipedia

  1. farming

    Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. While humans started gathering grains at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers only began planting them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs and cattle were domesticated around 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. In the twentieth century, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monocultures came to dominate agricultural output. Today, small farms produce about a third of the world’s food, but large farms are prevalent. The largest one percent of farms in the world are greater than 50 hectares and operate more than 70 percent of the world's farmland. Nearly 40 percent of agricultural land is found on farms larger than 1,000 hectares. However, five of every six farms in the world consist of less than two hectares and take up only around 12 percent of all agricultural land. The major agricultural products can be broadly grouped into foods, fibers, fuels, and raw materials (such as rubber). Food classes include cereals (grains), vegetables, fruits, cooking oils, meat, milk, eggs, and fungi. Global agricultural production amounts to approximately 11 billion tonnes of food, 32 million tonnes of natural fibres and 4 billion m3 of wood. However, around 14 percent of the world's food is lost from production before reaching the retail level. Modern agronomy, plant breeding, agrochemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, and technological developments have sharply increased crop yields, but also contributed to ecological and environmental damage. Selective breeding and modern practices in animal husbandry have similarly increased the output of meat, but have raised concerns about animal welfare and environmental damage. Environmental issues include contributions to climate change, depletion of aquifers, deforestation, antibiotic resistance, and other agricultural pollution. Agriculture is both a cause of and sensitive to environmental degradation, such as biodiversity loss, desertification, soil degradation, and climate change, all of which can cause decreases in crop yield. Genetically modified organisms are widely used, although some countries ban them.

ChatGPT

  1. farming

    Farming is the act or process of working the ground, planting seeds, and growing crops or raising livestock as a business or means of livelihood. This practice, also known as agriculture, involves cultivating soil and rearing animals to produce food, fiber, medicinal plants, and other products used to sustain and enhance human life. It can involve different techniques such as organic farming, industrial farming, crop rotation, or irrigation, among others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Farming

    of Farm

  2. Farmingadjective

    pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community

  3. Farmingnoun

    the business of cultivating land

Editors Contribution

  1. farmingverb

    Verb form of the word farm.

    The farming community worked together.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 26, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Farming' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4194

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Farming' in Nouns Frequency: #1726

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Farming in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Farming in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Farming in a Sentence

  1. Brandon Basso:

    The future of farming certainly involves technologies like drones, [They] really gain us an additional perspective from the air on what's going on both on a micro-scale and a macro-scale.

  2. Rosemarie North:

    The floods, landslides and tropical Cyclone Komen did a lot of damage to agricultural land, salt production, shrimp farming and fishing.

  3. Isar Aerospace:

    Space will become a key technological platform for many industries worldwide — from the automotive to the telecoms sector — bringing advances and new capabilities of [ Internet of Things ], data encryption and storage, as well as smart farming applications and surveillance for tackling climate change.

  4. Charlie Burrell:

    I came out of agricultural college incredibly enthusiastic about farming, we'd been taught that conventional farming can work.

  5. Mr vybs live:

    It's in Uganda where it rains and people think of sex than farming

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