noun
crop domestication
Technical term used in agriculture and botany for the process of domesticating wild plants into cultivated crops.
イネの作物化は数千年前に始まった。
The domestication of rice began thousands of years ago.
野生植物の作物化には長い時間がかかる。
Domesticating wild plants takes a long time.
Compound of 作物 (crop) + 化 (-ization). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term follows a common pattern for technical nouns.