Agriculture
Agriculture is made up of livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, forestry, animal husbandry and farming (or crop production). From agriculture one can get food and non-food products.[1]
Origin
[change | change source]The word agriculture comes from late Middle English which formed it partly from Middle French from the Latin word agricultura. Agricultura comes from the ager/agr meaning “field” and cultura meaning “growing, cultivation”.[2]
Examples
[change | change source]Some forms of agriculture are:
- Fish hatchery
- Oyster farming, a kind of aquaculture
- Growing cotton
- Growing tobacco
- Growing trees for lumber (or forestry) and logging[3]
- Raising cattle or other livestock
- cereals (grains),
- vegetables,
- fruits,
- meat,
- milk,
- eggs, and
- mushroom
Important kinds of agricultural products are:
- fibers
- fuels
- raw materials (such as rubber).
- classes (or kinds) of food
There are views about what is different between farming and agriculture.[4][5]
Sources
[change | change source]- ↑ The State of Food and Agriculture 2021. Making agrifood systems more resilient to shocks and stresses. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2021. doi:10.4060/cb4476en. ISBN 978-92-5-134329-6. S2CID 244548456.
- ↑ "agriculture, noun". Oxford English Dictionary.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ https://www.epa.gov/agriculture/agriculture-and-forestry. EPA.gov
- ↑ https://unacademy.com/content/difference-between/farming-and-agriculture/. Unacademy.com. Retrieved 2023-07-31
- ↑ https://edurev.in/question/442041/What-is-difference-between-farming-and-agriculture. Edurev.in. Retrieved 2023-07-31
