Agriculture
art or science of cultivating the ground
Agriculture is made up of livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, forestry and farming (or crop production). From agriculture one can get food and non-food products.[1]
Agriculture may be
- Fish hatchery
- Oyster farming, a kind of aquaculture
- Growing cotton (for making cloth)
- Growing tobacco
- Growing trees for lumber (or forestry) and logging[2]
- Raising cattle or other livestock, is part of agriculture.
- Agriculture has farmers that work so they can harvest later.
- cereals (grains),
- vegetables,
- fruits,
- meat,
- milk,
- eggs
- edible mushroom or
- cooking oils
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.[3][4]
Sources
change- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
