HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
GENERAL AGRICULTURE
Question
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Detailed explanation-1: -The English word agriculture derives from the Latin ager (field) and colo (cultivate) signifying, when combined, the Latin agricultura: field or land tillage.
Detailed explanation-2: -Etymology. Borrowed from Latin agricultura, from ager (“field”) + cultura (“cultivation”).
Detailed explanation-3: -Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising livestock. It includes the preparation of plant and animal products for people to use and their distribution to markets.
Detailed explanation-4: -Egyptians were among the first peoples to practice agriculture on a large scale, starting in the pre-dynastic period from the end of the Paleolithic into the Neolithic, between around 10, 000 BC and 4000 BC. This was made possible with the development of basin irrigation.