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.
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
- 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.
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