Cultivation

Cultivation may refer to:The state of having or expressing a good education (bildung), refinement, culture, or high culture Gardening The controlled growing of organisms by humans Agriculture, the land-based cultivation and breeding of plants, fungi and domesticated animals Crop farming, the mass-scale cultivation of plants as staple food or industrial crop Horticulture, the cultivation of non-staple plants such as vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees and grass Fungiculture, the cultivation of mushrooms and other fungi for producing food, medicine and other commercially valued products Animal husbandry, the breeding of domesticated mammals and birds (poultry), and occasionally amphibians and reptiles Insect farming, the breeding of economic insects such as honeybees, silkworms and cochineals Aquaculture, the controlled breeding or "farming" of aquatic animals, plants and algae Pisciculture, the breeding of fish Algaculture, the breeding of algae, particularly seaweeds Tillage, the cultivation of fertile soil Land development Colonization, socio-political cultivation of land Colonialism, the idea of socio-political cultivation of land and people Civilizing mission, cultivation of people in the sense of cultural assimilation or forced assimilation Developmentalism Microbiological culture, a method of multiplying microbial organisms Cultivation theory, George Gerbner's model of media effects A common translation for several terms originating in Chinese and broader East Asian philosophy and literature, such as Qigong and Kung Fu practices, Self-cultivation, and certain supernatural tropes often featured in Xianxia fiction. As a proper noun Cultivation, a video game by Jason Rohrer Cultivation, a 2006 album by Gram Rabbit Cultivate (store) Read more on Wikipedia