Agriculture

• agribusiness: a large-scale farming enterprise
• farming: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
• Department of Agriculture: the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862
• the class of people engaged in growing food
• Agriculture contributes nearly 45% to the net state domestic product. It is the main source of income as well as employment in Himachal. About 93% of the state population depend directly upon agriculture.
• Agriculture refers to the production of agricultural goods through the growing of plants and the raising of domesticated animals. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The related practice of gardening is studied in horticulture.
• The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock; tillage; husbandry ...
• agricultural - agrarian: relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"
• the science, art, and business of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock.
• The growing of crops and rearing of animals.
• For many years now agriculture in Germany has been in a state of decline. Poor earnings and lack of profitability are counted to the main reasons for the failure of many medium and small concerns. The main crops grown are potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beet and cabbage. ...
• Defined by section 336(1) of The town and Country Planning Act 1990 as including horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or furs, or the purpose of its use in the farming ...
• The rural areas still mostly depend on agriculture as a source of income. Some of the major crops are rice, corn, vegetables, and fruits such as mangoes.
• (a term which encompasses farming) is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals.
• the process of growing crops by cultivating large areas of soil.
• Production that relies essentially on the growth and nurturing of plants and animals, especially for food, usually with land as an important input; farming. Contrasts with manufacturing.
• All methods of production and management of livestock, crops, vegetation, and soil. This includes, but is not limited to, the related activities of tillage, fertilization, pest control, harvesting and marketing. ...
• Land in farms regularly used for agricultural production; all land devoted to crop or livestock enterprises, for example, farmstead lands ...
• the science or process of farming or cultivating the soil for the production of plants and animals that will be useful to humans in some way.
• Mode of production that involves growing crops with the use of plowing, irrigation and fertilizer.
• Rice and other crops are itemized and, in a country that has comparatively little land available for agriculture, the importance of greenhouses, "bio-farms" and imports is underlined.
• Tea is grown in open fields or on terraced hillsides. The plants are kept pruned to bush size except the seed trees, which are allowed full natural growth. Numerous varieties have been produced through long cultivation. In the Orient the plant thrives best under a rainfall of 90 to 200 in. ...
• Cultivation of domesticates from about 10,000 years ago onwards involving much modification of local environments and different social structures from their predecessors. Solar energy still the basis, though capture of secondary forms as eg, windmills and water-mills is added to photosynthesis.
• coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn, sorghum; wood
• is the practice of farming on a farm for crops, plants, vines and trees; and the keeping, grazing or feeding of livestock for sale as livestock or ...
• Agribusiness never had it so good. Because galvanized steel is prolonging the life of farm structures and equipment everywhere and reducing maintenance costs at the same time. Irrigation equipment. Animal pens. Green houses. Buildings. You name it. ...
• The raising of food or other crops.
• Agriculture is the domestication of plants. The Mississippian people did not have domestic animals. They did however have many crops; the most important was corn (maize). They also produced beans, squash, gourds, and several oil-seedproducing plants we now consider weeds. ...
• For centuries, man has colonised the territory by means of agriculture, creating irrigation systems and planting crops according to the laws of ...
• the engagement in the practice, art, and sciences related to the production of crops and livestock to produce products for consumption
• Rich paddy fields, Sugar Cane, Cane reeds
• Fertilizer applications to land are carried in water and sediment as runoff.
• city farms are increasingly being used as a stimulating means of community involvement and environmental education within urban areas. But, most urban areas are only sustainable by their human populations being dependent on much larger agricultural regions in the countryside. ...

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