| Spanish | English |
| biomasa de los cultivos | crop biomass |
| cultivo biológico de flores | organic flower growing |
| cultivo comercial | cash crop Crops that are grown for sale in the town markets or for export. They include coffee, cocoa, sugar, vegetables, peanuts and non-foods, like tobacco and cotton. Huge areas of countries in the developing world have been turned over to cash crops. Those countries with no mineral or oil resources depend on cash crops for foreign money, so that they can import materials do develop roads, for construction, or to buy Western consumer goods and, indeed, food. However, critics argue that cash crops are planted on land that would otherwise be used to grow food for the local community and say this is a cause of world famine. Cash crops, such as peanuts, can ruin the land if it is not left fallow after six years of harvests. Moreover, if the best agricultural land is used for cash crops, local farmers are forced to use marginal land to grow food for local consumption, and this has a further dramatic effect on the environment |
| cultivo en invernadero | greenhouse cultivation |
| cultivo en invernadero | greenhouse cultivation Cultivation of plants, especially of out-of-season plants, in glass-enclosed, climate-controlled structures |
| cultivo en terreno escalonado | contour cropping |
| cultivo energético | fuel crop |
| cultivo para la producción de biocombustible | fuel crop |
| cultivo para la producción de biocombustible | energy crop |
| cultivos de contorno | contour farming |
| cultivos de contorno | contour farming The performing of cultivations along lines connecting points of equal elevation so reducing the loss of top soil by erosion, increasing the capacity of the soil to retain water and reducing the pollution of water by soil |
| cultivos industriales | industrial crop |
| cultivos industriales | industrial crop Any crop that provides materials for industrial processes and products such as soybeans, cotton (lint and seed), flax, and tobacco |
| ecología de los cultivos | crop ecology |
| infestación de alimentos y cultivos | infestation of food |
| infestación de alimentos y cultivos | infestation of crops |
| infestación de alimentos y cultivos | infestation of crops Invasion of crop by parasites. Among vertebrate animals, many crop pests are mammals, especially in the order of rodents and birds. Among invertebrates, certain species of gastropods and a large number of roundworms from the class of nematodes harm crops. The most varied and numerous species of crop pests are arthropods-insects, arachnids and some species of millipedes and crustaceans. Diseases vary from viral, bacterial, and nutritional to fungal, environmental and non-specific. The FAO has estimated that annual worldwide losses done by plant pests and diseases amount to approximately 20-25% of the potential worldwide yield of food crops |
| infestación de alimentos y cultivos | infestation of food Food that has been contaminated and deteriorated by some kind of pest |
| nueva puesta en cultivo | recultivation |
| rotación de cultivos | crop rotation An agricultural technique in which, season after season, each field is sown with crop plants in a regular rotation, each crop being repeated at intervals of several years. Crop rotation minimizes the risks of depleting the soil of particular nutrients. In rotation systems, a grain crop is often grown the first year, followed by a leafy-vegetable crop in the second year, and a pasture crop in the third. The last usually contains legumes; such plants can restore nitrogen to the soil. Notwithstanding, high yields tend to depend upon the continued addition of chemical fertilizers to the soil |
| tratamiento de cultivos | crop treatment |
| tratamiento de cultivos | crop treatment Use of chemicals in order to avoid damage of crops by insects or weeds |
