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

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

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

1. 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.
2. "agriculture, noun". Oxford English Dictionary.
3. https://www.epa.gov/agriculture/agriculture-and-forestry. EPA.gov
4. https://unacademy.com/content/difference-between/farming-and-agriculture/. Unacademy.com. Retrieved 2023-07-31
5. https://edurev.in/question/442041/What-is-difference-between-farming-and-agriculture. Edurev.in. Retrieved 2023-07-31