A housing cooperative, or co-op, is a legal entity, usually a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure.
An alternative to leasing farmland is custom farming. The. custom operator agrees to perform all the machine opera-. tions on the ownerâs land in exchange for a set fee or rate. The landowner pays for all seed, chemicals, and other in-. puts, and keeps all of the crop and commodity payments.
The raising of different crops mixed together in the same field, particularly common in shifting cultivation. market gardening A farm devoted to specialized fruit, vegetable, or vine crops for sale rather than consumption. paddy rice farming Cultivation of rice on a paddy, or small flooded field enclosed by mud dikes, practiced in the humid areas of the Far East. plantation A large landholding devoted to specialized production of a tropical cash crop. ranching