Agriculture - Overview

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.

• Agriculture - Overview
• Agriculture - History
• Agriculture - Crops
• Agriculture - Seed Testing
• Agriculture - World production of major crops in 2004
• Agriculture - Crop improvement
• Agriculture - Environmental problems
• Agriculture - Policy
• Agriculture - Agricultural Revolutions
• Agriculture - Methods

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Agriculture sometimes refers to subsistence agriculture, the production of enough food to meet just the needs of the farmer/agriculturalist and his/her family. It may also refer to industrial agriculture, (often referred to as factory farming) long prevalent in developed nations and increasingly so elsewhere, which consists of obtaining financial income from the cultivation of land to yield produce, the commercial raising of animals (animal husbandry), or both. Agriculture is also short for the study of the practice of agriculture—more formally known as agricultural science. Agricultural students are k ...

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Agriculture can refer to subsistence agriculture, the production of enough food to meet just the needs of the farmer/agriculturalist and his/her family. It may also refer to industrial agriculture, (often referred to as factory farming) long prevalent in "developed" nations and increasingly so elsewhere, which consists of obtaining financial income from the cultivation of land to yield produce, the commercial raising of animals (animal husbandry), or both. Agriculture is also short for the study of the practice of agriculture—more formally known as agricultural science. Agricultural students are k ...

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Agriculture, Agriculture - Overview, Agriculture - History, Agriculture - Crops, Agriculture - Seed Testing, Agriculture - World production of major crops in 2004, Agriculture - Crop improvement, Agriculture - Environmental problems, Agriculture - Policy, Agriculture - Agricultural Revolutions, Agriculture - Methods

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Agriculture can refer to subsistence agriculture, the production of enough food to meet just the needs of the farmer/agriculturalist and his/her family. It may also refer to industrial agriculture, (often referred to as factory farming) long prevalent in developed nations and increasingly so elsewhere, which consists of obtaining financial income from the cultivation of land to yield produce, the commercial raising of animals (animal husbandry), or both. Agriculture is also short for the study of the practice of agriculture—more formally known as agricultural science. Agricultural students are k ...

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Agriculture, Agriculture - Overview, Agriculture - History, Agriculture - Crops, Agriculture - World production of major crops in 2004, Agriculture - Crop improvement, Agriculture - Environmental problems, Agriculture - Policy, Agriculture - Agricultural Revolutions, Agriculture - Methods

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Archaeobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tough rachis and larger seeds, to just after the Younger Dryas (about 9,500 BC) in the early Holocene in the Levant region of the Fertile Crescent. Limited anthropological and archaeological evidence both indicate a grain-grinding culture farming along the Nile in the 10th millennium BC using the world's earliest known type of sickle blades. There is even earlier evidence for conscious cultivation and seasonal harvest: grains of ...

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Archaeobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tough rachis and larger seeds, to just after the Younger Dryas (about 9,500 BC) in the early Holocene in the Levant region of the Fertile Crescent. Limited anthropological and archaeological evidence both indicate a grain-grinding culture farming along the Nile in the 10th millennium BC using the world's earliest known type of sickle blades. There is even earlier evidence for conscious cultivation and seasonal harvest: grains of ...

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Agriculture, Agriculture - Overview, Agriculture - History, Agriculture - Crops, Agriculture - World production of major crops in 2004, Agriculture - Crop improvement, Agriculture - Environmental problems, Agriculture - Policy, Agriculture - Agricultural Revolutions, Agriculture - Methods

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Archaeobotanists/Paleoethnobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tough rachis and larger seeds, to just after the Younger Dryas (about 9,500 BC) in the early Holocene in the Levant region of the Fertile Crescent. Limited anthropological and archaeological evidence both indicate a grain-grinding culture farming along the Nile in the 10th millennium BC using the world's earliest known type of sickle blades. There is even earlier evidence for conscious cultivation and seasonal ...

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Agriculture, Agriculture - Overview, Agriculture - History, Agriculture - Crops, Agriculture - World production of major crops in 2004, Agriculture - Crop improvement, Agriculture - Environmental problems, Agriculture - Policy, Agriculture - Agricultural Revolutions, Agriculture - Methods

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Agriculture - Seed Testing. Seeds are tested for various qualities to ensure a high quality harvest, and to limit or prevent the spread of undesirable and invasive species. Seed test types Descriptions of various tests done on seed Seed related databases ISTA, the International Seed Testing Association, maintains a list of links to Seed Organizations worldwide: http://www.seedtest.org/en/content---1--1014--329.html Agriculture - World production of major crops in 2004. In millions of me ...

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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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