Agriculture Reference
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Minimum wages Statutory floor limit on payment of wages below which no em-
ployer is supposed to pay. Most countries have some sort of legislation regulating
payment of minimum wages.
MIS
Management information system
Model estimate
Estimate
Monoblock pump A water pump, usually of rotodynamic type, that has the electric
motor and the propeller in the same casing of metal.
Mortality The ratio of plants that die to the total number of plants originally planted
in a given plantation. It is expressed as a fraction or in terms of percentage.
Mother bed
Bed
MPR Monthly progress report.
mS
millisiemens
MS wire Mild steel wire. The type of iron commonly used in construction, and
popularly known simply as 'iron', is in fact mild steel.
Mulch A protective covering of compost, brushwood, or other material spread or
left on the ground to reduce evaporation, maintain even soil temperature, prevent
erosion, control weeds, and to enrich the soil.
Mulch lines In sand dune stabilisation, the lines of brushwood mulch erected into
sand to act as micro-windbreaks and to check movements of sand. Mulch lines can
be aligned in a parallel pattern running across the prevailing direction of winds, or
in a checkerboard pattern of square grids, or in the masonry pattern of staggered
squares.
Mulching density In sand dune stabilisation, the length of mulch lines per hectare.
Desired mulching density is determined by the level or intensity of sand movements
in the place. It determines the spacing between two consecutive mulch lines, or the
size of the square of mulch line grid.
Natural regeneration Growth or re-emergence of the native vegetation in a place
after it has been destroyed or degraded, resulting from protection of area from biotic
interference. Regeneration may proceed from stumps cut, bushes grazed, from root
suckers, or from seeds.
Network analysis A formalised method for modelling and analysis of the interrela-
tionships among the different activities of a project using lines and nodes formed into
a network. Sequencing of activities, overlap of times of execution, and identification
of activities that are time critical are the major tasks to be achieved in a network
analysis.
Network diagram A diagram drawn with lines and nodes representing different
activities of a project and their interrelationships in terms of time and order of
execution.
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