HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Mehrgarh, one of the most important Neolithic (7000 BC to 3200 BC) sites in archaeology, lies on the “Kachi plain of Baluchistan, Pakistan, and is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming (wheat and barley) and herding (cattle, sheep and goats) in South Asia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Earliest Agrarian Settlements: Mehrgarh The earliest known agrarian settlements in the Indian subcontinent, however, come from the west of the Indus system. Mehrgarh, in the northeastern Baluchistan was the first village to witness the beginning of agriculture in India in the 5th millennium BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Neolithic Era began when some groups of humans gave up the nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle completely to begin farming. It may have taken humans hundreds or even thousands of years to transition fully from a lifestyle of subsisting on wild plants to keeping small gardens and later tending large crop fields.