Agriculture - World production of major crops in 2004. In millions of metric tons, based on FAO estimates[2]: By crop types Cereals 2,264 Vegetables and melons 866 Roots and Tubers 715 Milk 619 Fruit 503 Meat 259 Oilcrops 133 Fish 130 (2001 estimate) Eggs 63 Pulses 60 Vegetable Fiber 30 By individual crops Sugar Cane 1,324 Maize 721 Wheat 627 Rice 605 Potatoes 328 Sugar Beet 249 Soybean 204 Oil Palm Fruit 162 ...

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The origin of maize is still not completely known. Richard MacNeish has done an extensive archaeological survey of Mesoamerica, and determined that the most likely place for the first cultivation for maize was probably in the Tehuacan Valley around 5000 BC. However, how maize arrived at this point, or how it was originally cultivated is still a mystery. Teosinte has been proposed as the ancestor of maize, but teosinte looks nothing like modern maize, and many molecular botanists do not agree with this theory. The origin of maize aside, it be ...

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Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). The practice of agriculture is also known as "farming", while scientists, inventors and others devoted to improving farming methods and implements are also said to be engaged in agriculture. More people in the world are involved in agriculture as their primary economic activity than in any other, yet it only accounts for four percent of the world's GDP.

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In agriculture, crop yield (also known as "agricultural output") is a measure of the yield per unit area of land under cultivation. As agricultural practices and technology have improved over time, so too have crop yields. Historically, widespread and lasting increases in crop yields have allowed more people to be fed using fewer resources. However, modern agricultural practices, which seek to maximise crop yield, tend to have an a ...

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An agricultural aircraft is an aircraft that has been built or converted for agricultural use -- usually aerial application of pesticides (crop dusting) or fertiliser (aerial topdressing); in this role they are referred to as "top dressers" or "crop dusters." Agricultural aircraft are also used for hydroseeding. The most common agricultural aircraft are fixed-wing, such as the Grumman Ag Cat, PAC Fletcher, or Rockwell Thrush Commander but helicopters are also used ...

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The value of crop production amounted to $272 million in 2003. Vegetable and flower production account for about 97 % of the total value, being $264 million in 2003. Vegetable crops grown all year round include white cabbage, flowering cabbage, lettuce, Chinese kale, radish, leaf mustard, spring onion and chive. Spinach, watercress, and matrimony vine are produced in the cooler months. Yardlong beans, water spinach, amaranth, cucumber, and several species of Chinese gourd are produced in summer. A wide range of temperate vegetables including tomato, sweet ...

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An agricultural subsidy is a governmental subsidy paid to farmers to supplement their income, help manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and bolster the supply of such commodities on international markets. The effect of such action is, in fact, lower prices which results in welfare losses for unsubsidized producers. Examples of such commodities include wheat, feed grains (grain used as fodder, such as maize, sorghum, barley, and o ...

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Ancient Mesoamerican agriculture dates to the Archaic period of Mesoamerican chronology (8000-2000 BC). During this period, many of the hunter gatherer micro-bands in the region began to cultivate wild plants. The cultivation of these plants probably started out as creating known areas of fall back, or starvation foods, near seasonal camps, that the band could rely on when hunting was bad, or when there was a drought. The plants could have been brought purposely, or by accident. The former could have been done by bringing a wild plant ...

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In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for money. The term is used to differentiate from subsistence crops, which are those fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for the producer's family. In earlier times cash crops were usually only a small (but vital) part of a farm's total yield, while today, especially in the developed countries, almost all crops are mainly grown for cash. In non-developed nations, cash crops are usually crops which attract demand in more deve ...

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The British Agricultural Revolution is the name for a series of developments in agricultural practices in Britain between the Middle Ages and the mid-19th century. These practices caused a massive increase in agricultural productivity and net output. Among the primary causes of the agricultural revolution were four key changes in agricultural practices: enclosure, mechanization, four-field crop rotation, and selective breeding. British Agricultural Revolution - Enclosure. Prior to the 18th century, agricult ...

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Agriculture is a major industry in the United States and the country is a net exporter of food. Agriculture in the United States - Major agricultural products. The top twenty agricultural products of the United States by value as reported by the FAO in 2003 (ranked in order of value with volume in metric tons): Corn 256,904,992 Cattle Meat 11,736,300 Cow's Milk, Whole, Fresh 78,155,000 Chicken Meat 15,006,000 Soybeans 65,795,300 Pig meat 8,574,290 ...

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Agroforestry combines agriculture and forestry technologies to create more integrated, diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems. -National Agroforestry Center (NAC) The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) made this definition in 1993: "Agroforestry is a collective name for land use systems and practices in which woody perennials are deliberately integrated with crops and/or animals on the same land management unit. The integration can be either in a spatial mixture or in a temporal sequence. There are no ...

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Crop rotation is the practice of growing two (or more) dissimilar type of crops in the same space in sequence. It is one component of polyculture. Examples of types of crops that can be rotated include cereals and legumes, and deep-rooted and short-rooted plants. Crop rotation - Method and Purpose. Crop rotation is widely practiced in vegetable production, where it is possible to grow a cool-season crop (such as lettuce) in the spring, follow with a warm-season crop (such as tomatoes) in the summer, ...

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Australia produces a large variety of primary products for both export and domestic consumption. The top ten agricultural products in 2001-2002 by value in Australian dollars were: Agriculture in Australia - Crops. Cereals, oilseeds and grain legumes are produced on a large scale in Australia for human consumption and livestock feed. Wheat is the cereal with the greatest production in terms of area and value to the Australian economy. Sugarcane, grown in tropical Australia is also an important crop; howeve ...

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Vegetable farming has traditionally been done in long rows. This allows machinery to cultivate the fields, increasing efficiency and output. Over the past 100 years a new technique has emerged--raised bed gardening, which has increased yields from small plots of soil without the need for commercial, energy intensive fertilizers. Modern hydroponic farming yields very high yields in greenhous ...

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Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is a plant in the genus Fagopyrum (sometimes merged into genus Polygonum) in the family Polygonaceae. With its congenor the Tartar Buckwheat, it is often counted as a cereal, though unlike most cereals the buckwheats are not true grasses. Buckwheat is thus not related to true wheat. Buckwheat is most likely descended from wild buckwheat, though it does not share its vine-like growth habit. Common buckwheat was domesticated and first cultivated in southwe ...

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Cereology is the study of Crop Circles. The term appears to come from Ceres, the Roman god of Agriculture and the Greek root -logein, meaning "to study". However, like many things regarding crop circles, this definition is also unclear as the term may come from the word Cereal instead of Ceres since most crop circles are found in fields with crops that are or can be made into cereal, such as

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In agriculture, harvesting is the process of gathering mature crops from the fields. Reaping is the harvesting of grain crops. The harvest marks the end of the growing season, or the growing cycle for a particular crop. Harvesting in general usage includes the immediate post-harvest handling, all of the actions taken immediately after physically removing the crop—cooling, sorting, cleaning, packing—up to the point of further on-farm processing, or ...

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Crop has several meanings: A plant domesticated for use in agriculture, considered as a group (for example, the farmers produced a bumper crop of pineapple guavas this year) Crop (anatomy), part of the alimentary tract of some animals Crop (implement), a modified whip used in horseback riding or disciplining humans (as punishment or in BDSM) "Cropping", a synonym for docking (an animal's tail or ears) Cropping (image), to give an image another aspect ratio In digital image edit

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