Agriculture Summary

Agriculture Agriculture is a vast industry that includes plant and animal production, comprehensive support and infrastructure systems, and food and fiber processing. Key application areas of computer... Read more

Agriculture, History Of The history of agriculture (the production of food by plant cultivation and animal husbandry and control of productivity) can be organized around several themes (such as time, ... Read more

Agriculture AGRICULTURE, the cultivation of plants for food and other ends, as opposed to the use of plants as they grow naturally in man's environment, is a rather recent phenomenon if conside... Read more

Agriculture—South Asia The patterns of South Asian agriculture are discernible as far back as the Indus Valley civilization (c. 2300–1750 BCE). Traditional agricultural systems include s... Read more

Agriculture—West Asia Although industry is advancing more rapidly than agriculture, the latter is of considerable importance in the economies of West Asian nations. Local farming produces much ... Read more

The Industrialization of Agriculture Overview Agricultural technology changed more dramatically in the 1700s than at any time since the introduction of draft animals millennia before. Mechanized plant... Read more

Agriculture The earliest human inhabitants of the earth were hunters and gatherers. Under favorable conditions they required at least 1.5 square kilometers to provide food for one person, and in harsh... Read more

Way back when in the eighteen hundreds farming was growing and there lots of people coming over from other countries to farm here, like the damned Chinese. The government was giving away land; ... Read more

Farmers, while being the corner stone of most civilizations, providing raw materials, rations for their community and creating a start to an economic market, had a hard time surviving. This holds true... Read more