Agricultural production methods that utilize mountain resources. (Translated from CNTERM. 2024. CHINESE TERMS IN AGRONOMY 2024. https://www.cnterm.cn/news/tzgg/202407/P020250909517921360798.pdf)
Putting the cut herbage into rows for further handling and collection, and sometimes also for protection at night. (http://www.fao.org/3/x7660e/x7660e06.htm)
A machine capable of autonomous operation without direct human intervention. It can be stationary (e.g. a milking robot) or mobile (e.g. autodriving). (Lowenberg-DeBoer, J., Huang, I.Y., Grigoriadis, V. & Blackmore, S. 2020. Economics of robots and automation in field crop production. Precision Agriculture, 21(2): 278–299. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-019-09667-5 and FAO. 2022. The State of Food and Agriculture 2022. Leveraging automation in agriculture for transforming agrifood systems. Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9479en)
A component in mowers, binders, or combines, consisting of a bar with triangular guards that guide a moving knife or blade for cutting. It can also refer to a bar that holds the cutting tool in a boring machine or lathe. (AGROVOC Team, 2025)
Scrubber (brush): a wide brush for cleaning floors and hard surfaces. Unlike a broom, which has soft bristles to sweep dirt away, a scrubber has hard bristles for brushing. It may therefore be used wet, with water or cleaning fluids. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubber_(brush))
Slatted floors have slats where manure and urine can drop down below the floor into a pit, where they form slurry. (Adapted from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:329:0001:0028:EN:PDF)
A tank truck, gas truck, fuel truck, or tanker truck is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquids or gases on roads. The liquid can be, for example, water, fuel, chemicals, or slurry. (Adapted from Wikipedia, 2024. Tank truck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_truck)
Data processing: A generic concept referring to all kinds of procedures being executed on data at any point in the data life cycle. (https://casrai.org/rdm-glossary/)
A cost which the manager has control over at a given point in time. Such costs can be increased or decreased at the manager's discretion and will increase as production is increased. Items such as labour, feed, fertilizer, juveniles, chemicals, fuel, and livestock health expenses are examples of variable costs; each of them is equal to the quantity of the input purchased times its price. (Kay, R.D. (1986) Farm management. Planning, control, and implementation. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co. 401 p. 2nd ed.)
A type of plow with working bodies consisting of sharp-edged, concave steel discs, available in mounted and towed types, with a high soil mixing and breaking effect. (Translated from http://terim.tuba.gov.tr/)
