tillage

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
2. (countable, uncountable)Land cultivated in this way.

   “Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.”

3. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.