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.

Origin

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”.

Examples

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
• 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.

Disciplines

• Agricultural economics
• Agricultural science
  • Agronomy

In at least one country, education is available to become an Agricultural scientist; People with that job, do "implementation of [... things like] crop production, livestock management, and sustainable farming methods".

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