Glossary

Definitions of terms used throughout CountryReports.

This glossary contains 1,144 terms used throughout CountryReports — political, economic, cultural, historical, and geographic terminology referenced in country profiles and articles. Terms are drawn from authoritative sources including the Library of Congress.

JSS.: Junior Secondary School.
secondary recovery: An artificial means of forcing oil out of rock by repressurizing older oil reservoirs with injections of gas or water.
SSS.: Senior Secondary School.
yala: Lesser monsoon--the secondary growing season for paddy (rice) and most other annual crops with sowing between April and May and harvesting four or five months later. For some foodstuffs and cotton, when grown in the dry zone under irrigation, the yala crop is more important than the maha (q.v.) crop.
zemecha: Amharic for ""campaign,"" in the military sense; popular term used to denote the military government’s Development Through Cooperation Campaign, which was launched as part of the initial land reform in 1975. Early implementation included forced mobilization of university and secondary school students to explain the socialist revolution, including land reform, to peasants and to improve their traditionally low literacy rate. The term ""green"" zemecha was used to describe the agricultural aspects of the National Revolutionary Development Campaign in 1979.