Agriculture
Agriculture is made up of livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, forestry, animal husbandry and farming (or crop production). From agriculture one can get food and non-food products.[1]
Origin
The word agriculture comes from late Middle English which formed it partly from Middle French from the Latin word agricultura. Agricultura comes from the ager/agr meaning “field” and cultura meaning “growing, cultivation”.[2]
Examples
Some forms of agriculture are:
- Fish hatchery
- Oyster farming, a kind of aquaculture
- Growing cotton
- Growing tobacco
- Growing trees for lumber (or forestry) and logging[3]
- Raising cattle or other livestock
- cereals (grains),
- vegetables,
- fruits,
- meat,
- milk,
- eggs, and
- mushroom
Important kinds of agricultural products are:
- fibers
- fuels
- raw materials (such as rubber).
- classes (or kinds) of food
There are views about what is different between farming and agriculture.[4][5]
Disciplines
In at least one country, education is available to become an Agricultural scientist; People with that job, do "implementation of [... things like] crop production, livestock management, and sustainable farming methods".[6]
Agriculture Media
- PivotWithDrops.JPG
Modern agriculture: a center pivot irrigation system on a field
- Vavilov-centers updated.jpg
Centres of origin, as numbered by Nikolai Vavilov in the 1930s. Area 3 is no longer recognized as a center of origin New Guinea (area P) was identified more recently.
- Centres of origin and spread of agriculture.svg
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.
- Tomb of Nakht (2).jpg
Agricultural scenes of threshing, a grain store, harvesting with sickles, digging, tree-cutting and ploughing from ancient Egypt. Tomb of Nakht, 15th century BC
- Crescenzi calendar.jpg
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.
- Unload wheat by the combine Claas Lexion 584.jpg
Harvesting wheat with a combine harvester accompanied by a tractor and trailer
- Manuring a vegetable garden.jpg
Spreading manure by hand in Zambia
- Inherent Land Quality Map.png
Suitability for agriculture of land around the world (US Department of Agriculture, 1998)
- Employment In Agriculture, Forestry And Fishing By Region.svg
Recent trends of employment in agriculture (including forestry and fishing) by region
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.
- ↑ "agriculture, noun". Oxford English Dictionary.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ https://www.purdue.edu/science/careers/what_can_i_do_with_a_major/Career%20Pages/agricultural-scientist.html. Retrieved 2025-04-15
