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Agriculture

The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.

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cacao

Agriculture; Agricultural produce

A Tropical American tree that grows in Mesoamerica. Its seeds were used by the ancient Maya for trade as money. Where does chocolate come from? Chocolate is made from cacao, for ...

honey

Agriculture; Agricultural produce

Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to, as it is the type of honey ...

royal gelly

Agriculture; Agricultural produce

Royal gelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae, and as well as adult queens.

propolis

Agriculture; Agricultural produce

Propolis is a resinous mixture that honey bees collect from tree buds, sap flows, or other botanical sources. It is used as a sealant for unwanted open spaces in the hive.

beeswax

Agriculture; Agricultural produce

Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bees. Honey bees use the beeswax to build honeycomb cells in which their young are raised and honey and pollen are ...

bee bread

Agriculture; Agricultural produce

Bee bread pr bee pollen is a mass of pollen that has been packed by worker honeybees into granules with added honey or nectar.

slumgum

Agriculture; Agricultural produce

Slumgum in beekeeping is the residue of the beeswax rendering process. When the beeswax from brood comb is rendered to produce clean wax, it leaves behind the pupal lining, wax ...