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

Modern agriculture: a center pivot irrigation system on a field
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.
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
Spreading manure by hand in Zambia
Suitability for agriculture of land around the world (US Department of Agriculture, 1998)
Recent trends of employment in agriculture (including forestry and fishing) by region