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spice cultivation
Areas for growing and harvesting plants with high flavor used as edible seasonings.
Spice cultivation is the controlled growth of plants whose harvested parts are high in flavor and are used to season other foods. These include herbs, and may take the form of seeds, leaves, roots, bark, or other plant parts.
The crop is grown for a strongly flavored part used to season other food. That harvested part can be a leaf, seed, root, bark, or another part of the plant.
Herbs are included along with other spices. The category does not depend on a strict botanical distinction between herbs and spices or on harvesting only seeds.