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Alternative Small-Organism Cultivation

Farming practices whose crop is not a land plant or animal in the ordinary sense, including algaculture, the farming of algae, and fungiculture, the farming of mushrooms and other fungi. Belongs here: any practice whose cultivated organism is an alga or a fungus. Does not belong here: an ordinary crop or livestock practice, which belongs to the crop or livestock type directly rather than to practice.

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1. Wikipedia: Insect farming (minilivestock)
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Insect farming is the practice of raising and breeding insects as livestock, also referred to as minilivestock or micro stock.
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