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9. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
11. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN AGRICULTURE
DEFINITIONS
OF AGRICULTURE
Agriculture
is the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops,
and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of
the resulting products.
Agriculture
is the most comprehensive word used to denote the many ways in which crop
plants and domestic animals sustain the global human population by providing
food and other products. The English word agriculture derives from the
Latin ager (field) and colo (cultivate) signifying, when
combined, the Latin agricultura: field or land tillage.
Agriculture
is the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops,
and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming.
Agriculture
is the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and
raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the
resulting products. cleared the land to use it for agriculture. agriculturist.
“Agriculture” and “Farming” shall include cultivation of the soil, dairying, forestry, raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training and management of livestock, including horses, bees, the production of honey, poultry, fur-bearing animals and wildlife, and the raising or harvesting of oysters, clams, mussels, other molluscan shellfish or fish.
The Latin root of agriculture is agri, or "field," plus cultura, "cultivation." Cultivating a piece of land, or planting and growing food plants on it, is largely what agriculture means. Raising animals for meat or milk also falls under the category of agriculture. If we didn't have agriculture, we'd all be running around the woods, picking berries and trying to shoot things.
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