Agriculture
Agriculture is made up of livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry and farming (or crop production). From agriculture one can get food and non-food products.[1]
Agriculture can be
- Fish hatchery
- Oyster farming, a kind of aquaculture or mariculture
- Growing cotton (for making cloth)
- Growing tobacco
- Growing trees for lumber (or forestry) and logging[2]
- Raising cattle or other livestock, is part of agriculture.
- Agriculture has farmers that do their work so that they can harvest
- cereals (grains),
- vegetables,
- fruits,
- meat,
- milk,
- eggs
- edible mushroom or
- cooking oils
Important kinds of agricultural products are:
- fibers
- fuels
- raw materials (such as rubber).
- classes (or kinds) of food
There are some different views about what is different between farming and agriculture.[3][4]
Agriculture Media
Centres of origin, as numbered by Nikolai Vavilov in the 1930s. Area 3 is no longer recognised as a centre of origin New Guinea (area P) was identified more recently.
Map of the world showing approximate centers of origin of agriculture and its spread in prehistory. DNA studies have shown that agriculture was introduced in Europe by the expansion of the early farmers from Anatolia about 9,000 years ago.
Agricultural scenes of threshing, a grain store, harvesting with sickles, digging, tree-cutting and ploughing from ancient Egypt. Tomb of Nakht, 15th century BC
Agricultural calendar, c. 1470, from a manuscript of Pietro de Crescenzi
Reindeer herds form the basis of pastoral agriculture for several Arctic and Subarctic peoples.
Harvesting wheat with a combine harvester accompanied by a tractor and trailer
On the three-sector theory, the proportion of people working in agriculture (left-hard bar in each group, green) falls as an economy becomes more developed.
Rollover protection bar retrofitted to a mid-20th century Fordson tractor
Sources
- ↑ The State of Food and Agriculture 2021. Making agrifood systems more resilient to shocks and stresses. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2021. doi:10.4060/cb4476en. ISBN 978-92-5-134329-6. S2CID 244548456.
- ↑ https://www.epa.gov/agriculture/agriculture-and-forestry. EPA.gov
- ↑ https://unacademy.com/content/difference-between/farming-and-agriculture/. Unacademy.com. Retrieved 2023-07-31
- ↑ https://edurev.in/question/442041/What-is-difference-between-farming-and-agriculture. Edurev.in. Retrieved 2023-07-31