🐝Pollination

The transfer of pollen from a flower's anther to its stigma.

🌻Polyculture

The practice of growing multiple crop species together in one field.

🍎Pomology

The branch of horticulture dealing with the cultivation of fruit.

🧪Potassium

A nutrient that supports plant vigor, disease resistance, and quality.

🐔Poultry

Domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, and turkeys raised for food.

🛰️Precision agriculture

The use of technology and data to optimize crop management.

⚙️Pump

A device that moves water from a source to fields or livestock.

🌾Quinoa

A nutrient-rich seed crop native to the Andes.

🌧️Rain gauge

An instrument that measures the amount of rainfall.

🌵Rangeland

Uncultivated land grazed by livestock, often semi-arid.

🏞️Reservoir

An artificial lake storing water for irrigation or supply.

🦠Rhizobium

A soil bacterium that fixes nitrogen in legume root nodules.

🍚Rice

A staple cereal grain grown in flooded paddies.

🫘Root nodule

A swelling on legume roots housing nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

🐄Ruminant

A mammal that digests food in a multi-chambered stomach.

🌊Runoff

Water that flows over land, carrying soil and nutrients away.

🌾Rye

A hardy cereal grain used for bread, whiskey, and feed.

🧂Salinization

The accumulation of soluble salts in soil, reducing its fertility.

🏖️Sand

Coarse soil particles that drain quickly but hold few nutrients.

🌲Sapling

A young tree, typically between one and three years old.

🍂Season

A division of the year defined by weather and crop cycles.

🌱Seed

The fertilized plant ovule from which a new plant grows.

🌱Seedbed

A prepared area of soil in which seeds are sown to germinate.

🚜Seeder

A machine that plants seeds in the soil at a controlled rate.

🌿Seedling

A young plant grown from a seed, before it matures.

🐛Sericulture

The cultivation of silkworms to produce raw silk.

🐑Sheep

Domesticated ruminants raised for wool, meat, and milk.

🥬Silage

Fermented, high-moisture fodder stored for feeding livestock.

🏭Silo

A tall structure for storing grain or fermented fodder.

🏞️Silt

A granular soil material between sand and clay in particle size.