AGRICULTURE

By: Hunter

What is Agriculture??

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Agriculture is also called farming is the cultivation of animals, plants, and other life forms for food, and other products used to sustain human life.

There are fifteen different types of agriculture.

The Types

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Agro forestry Alley Cropping Crop Rotation High-Input Agriculture Corporate Farming Interplanting Low Input

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Low-Till Monoculture Organic Farming Plantation Polyculture Polyvarietal Cultivation Subsistence Tillage

AGRO FORESTRY

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Is a system of land use in which harvestable trees are grown around crops or on pasture land as a means of preserving the productivity of the land.

ALLEY CROPPING

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Is a method of planting crops is strips with rows of trees on each side. This helps with wind and with nutrients

CROP ROTATION

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Is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons

HIGH-INPUT

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Includes the use of mechanized equipment, chemical fertilizer and pesticides

CORPORATE FARMING

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A system characterized by mechanization, with an emphasis on maximizing productivity

INTER CROPPING

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Is to grow more than one crop in the same field

INTER PLANTING

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Growing two different crops in the same field at the same time.

LOW INPUT

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Is farming that depends on hand tools and natural fertilizers; lacks large scale irrigation

MONOCULTURE

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Is the cultivation of a single crop

ORGANIC FARMING

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Relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control. Organic farming uses fertilizers and pesticides but excludes or strictly limits the use of manufactured fertilizers, pesticides

PLANTATION

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A commercial tropical agriculture system that is essentially export oriented.

POLYCULTURE

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Is the use of different crops in the same space, in imitation of diversity of natural ecosystem, and avoids large stand of monoculture.

POLYVARIENTAL CULTIVATION

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Planting a plot of land with several varieties of the same crop.

SUBSISTENCE

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Is agriculture carried out for survival

TILLAGE • Is the conventional method in which the surface is plowed which then breaks up and exposes the soil.

MAIN PARTS

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Irrigation

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Sustainable Agriculture

IRRIGATION

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Is the use of water to water plants, farms ect.

Three-quarters of all freshwater used on Earth is used for agriculture.

Sustainable Agriculture

Uses three main goals:

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Environmental health

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Economic profitability

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Social and economic equity

REVIEW

1. What is Agriculture? -is the cultivation of animals, plants, and other life forms for food, and other products used to sustain human life.

REVIEW 2. What type of Agriculture uses only one crop?

-Monoculture

REVIEW

3. What is this symbol?

-Organic Farming

REVIEW 4. Why is agriculture important?

-It provides a source of food for the world

REVIEW 5. What is the process of growing a series of

different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons?

-Crop Rotation

LINKS • • • http://www.agriculture.com

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdah ome http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2077260 917/harvestgeek-brains-for-your-garden

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