Chapter 25 Vocabulary
Cash Crop: farm crops grown to be sold or traded instead of used by the farm family.
Jute: plant fiber used to make string and cloth.
Green Revolution: programing, begun in the 1960s, to produce higher-yielding, more productive strains of wheat, rice, and other food crop.
Biomass: plant and animal waste used especially as a source of fuel.
Cottage Industry: a business that employs workers in their homes.
Ecotourism: tourism based on concern for the environment.
Sustainable Development: technological and economic growth that does not deplete the human and natural resources of a given area.
Poaching: illegal hunting of protected animals.
Chipko: India’s “tree-huger” movement that protects forests through reforestation and by supporting limited timber production
Nuclear Proliferation: the spreading development of nuclear arms.
Daltis: the “oppressed”; in India, people assigned to the lowest social class.