AGRICULTURE NOTES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
MODERN
AGRICULTURE OR FARMING
The
term “modern farming” refers to the application of modern technology,
practices, and science to increase agricultural output. Farming is the
cultivation of crops, plants, domestic animals, fish, birds, and other
items for food, fabric, and other amenities of life. Farming is critical to the
advancement of human civilization.
Modern
Agriculture publishes interdisciplinary, open access research in all
aspects of agriculture, with a focus on innovations in agricultural science.
The journal encompasses aspects of natural, economic, and social sciences,
providing a holistic view of innovative agriculture and its wider societal
impact. Our aim is to be a forum where solutions can be found to the social challenges
for sustainable development.
Modern
Agriculture covers a broad scope of multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary fields that encompass the parts of natural, economic and
social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture.
The scope ranges from agricultural engineering to informatics, agroecosystems,
biotechnology, soil, chemistry, breeding of crops, livestock and aquaculture
etc.
Prior
to the industrial revolution, the vast majority of the people relied on farming
for their daily necessities such as food, clothes, and shelter. They had little
concept of the global marketplace and used to produce relatively little owing
to the usage of Modern farming or organic
farming practices. But things have changed since then.