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 (known as crops), fungi and domesticated animals
• Crop farming, the mass-scale cultivation of (usually a specific single species 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 (livestock and working animals) and birds (poultry), and occasionally amphibians (e.g., bullfrogs) and reptiles (e.g. snakes, softshell turtles and crocodilians)
• 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 (etymological meaning of cultivation)
• 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 (including martial arts), 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)

• Cult (disambiguation)
• Farming (disambiguation)