User:Mdd/History of agricultural science
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The History of agricultural science deals with different thinkers and theories in the subject of agricultural science from the ancient world to the present day. Since Ancient times authors wrote about agriculture, but in daily life knowledge and experience of agriculture remained verbally transmitted from farmer to farmer.[1]
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Agriculture began to be studied, as a science by individuals, in the principal countries of Europe, about the middle of the 16th century.[2] In the 18th century in Central Europe the first practical agricultural schools were founded to educate farmers, and the first professorships of agriculture emerged at some European universities.[3]
In the 19th century programs to considered agriculture as a science inaugurated the scientific approach in agriculture. More specialized books, magazines, newspapers started to occur. Nationally and provincially agricultural societies where initiated, and in the second part of the 19th century the first departments of agriculture at universities occurred.