The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture. (Wiktionary. 2025. Fabrication https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fabrication)
The combine harvester is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining three separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, and winnowing—into a single process. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combine_harvester)
Haymaking turns green, perishable, forage into a product that can be safely stored and easily transported without danger of spoilage, while keeping losses of dry matter and nutrients to a minimum. This involves reducing its moisture content from 70 - 90% to 20 - 25% or less. ( Hay and Straw Conservation - For Small-Scale Farming and Pastoral Conditions, FAO 2000. www.fao.org/3/x7660e/x7660e00.htm)
The Combretaceae, often called the white mangrove family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Myrtales. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combretaceae)
Commercial farming refers to the growing of crops and/or the rearing of animals for raw materials, food, or export, particularly for profitable reasons. It is a form of entrepreneurship. (Adapted from 2019/2020 LESOTHO AGRICULTURAL CENSUS, VOLUME III: COMMERCIAL FARMING STATISTICS REPORT December, 2022 https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/wca/docs/LSO_REP_ENG_2019_2020.pdf)
The activities incorporated under farming systems research range from computer models simulating small-scale farm systems to integrated rural development strategies, and from complex experiment station trials of cropping systems to simple on-farm testing of technologies. (Management of agricultural research: A training manual. Module 8: Research-extension linkage (1997)
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Comminution is the reduction of solid materials from one average particle size to a smaller average particle size, by crushing, grinding, cutting, vibrating, or other processes. (Wikipedia, 2024. Comminution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comminution)
Land collectively managed and administered by local communities, Indigenous Peoples or pastoralists according to local customary rules. (IASC. 2022. International Association for the Study of the Commons. Tempe, Az. https://iasc-commons.org/ in https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9656en)
The unwritten law based originally on common customs and precedent but now administered by the courts. (UN ECE, 2005. Land Administration in the UNECE Region. Development trends and main principles. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, New York and Geneva. https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/hlm/documents/Publications/landadmin.devt.trends.e.pdf)
A Common Market is an agreement between two or more countries removing all trade barriers between themselves, establishing common tariff and non-tariff barriers for importers, and also allowing for the free movement of labour, capital and services between themselves. (SADC https://www.sadc.int/integration-milestones/common-market)
The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of 54 sovereign states (2021). Nearly all of them are former British colonies or dependencies of those colonies. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations)
