Kelompok 8 :

Adha Panca Wardanu

Ellen Artilerin RM
Putri A Lestari
Shakila Larasati
AGRICULTURE
Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and many other desired products by the
cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals. The practice of agriculture is also
known as “farming”, while scientists, inventors and others devoted to improving farming methods and
implements are also said to be engaged in agriculture.
Subsistence farming, who farms a small area with limited resource inputs, and produces only enough
food to meet the needs of his/her family. At the other end is commercial intensive agriculture, including
industrial agriculture. Such farming involves large fields and/or numbers of animals, large resource
inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, etc.), and a high level of mechanization. These operations generally
attempt to maximize financial income from grain, produce, or livestock.
Modern agriculture extends well beyond the traditional production of food for humans and animal feeds.
Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals
(starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from
biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the
pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).
The 20th Century saw massive changes in agricultural practice, particularly in agricultural chemistry.
Agricultural chemistry includes the application of chemical fertilizer, chemical insecticides, and chemical
fungicides, soil makeup, analysis of agricultural products, and nutritional needs of farm animals.
Beginning in the Western world, the green revolution spread many of these changes to farms
throughout the world, with varying success. Other recent changes in agriculture include hydroponics,
plant breeding, hybridization, gene manipulation, better management of soil nutrients, and improved
weed control. Genetic engineering has yielded crops which have capabilities beyond those of naturally
occuring plants, such as higher yields and disease resistance. Modified seeds germinate faster, and
thus can be grown in an extended growing area. Genetic engineering of plants has proven
controversial, particularly in the case of herbicide-resistant plants.
As of 2006, an estimated 36 percent of the world’s workers are employed in agriculture (down from
42% in 1996), making it by far the most common occupation. However, the relative significance of
farming has dropped steadily since the beginning of industrialization, and in 2006 – for the first time in
history – the services sector overtook agriculture as the economic sector employing the most people
worldwide. Also, agricultural production accounts for less than five percent of the gross world product
(an aggregate of all gross domestic products).

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/agriculture.htm
ANALYSIS OF ARTICLE
1. Cause and Effects
No Examples of cause-effect Cause Effects

Beginning in the Western world, the green revolution Many of changes to farms
The green
1 spread many of these changes to farms throughout the throughout the world, with varying
revolution
world, with varying success. (line 21) success

Other recent changes in agriculture include Hydroponics, plant breeding,

hydroponics, plant breeding, hybridization, gene hybridization, gene manipulation,
2 Previous sentence
manipulation, better management of soil nutrients, and better management of soil nutrients,
improved weed control. (line 22) and improved weed control.

Modified seeds germinate faster, and thus can be Germinate faster, and thus can be
3 Modified seeds
grown in an extended growing area. (line 26) grown in an extended growing area.

However, the relative significance of farming has

dropped steadily since the beginning of
industrialization, and in 2006 – for the first time in The beginning of The relative significance of farming
4
history – the services sector overtook agriculture as industrialization has dropped steadily
the economic sector employing the most people
worldwide. (line 30)

Yielded crops which have

Genetic engineering has yielded crops which have
5 capabilities beyond those of naturally occuring plants,
such as higher yields and disease resistance. (line 24)
capabilities beyond those of naturally
Genetic engineering
occuring plants, such as higher yields
and disease resistance.

2. Comparison and Contrast

No Examples of Comparison and Contrast Comparison and Contrast

Subsistence farming, who farms a small area with limited resource inputs, and
produces only enough food to meet the needs of his/her family. (line 5)
1 Contrast
At the other end is commercial intensive agriculture, including industrial
agriculture. (line 6)
Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and many other
2 desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of Comparison
domesticated animals.

Also, agricultural production accounts for less than five percent of the gross
3 Comparison
world product (an aggregate of all gross domestic products). (line 33)
3. Classification

No. Examples of Articles Classification

Subsistence farming, who farms a small area with limited resource inputs, and
produces only enough food to meet the needs of his/her family. (line 5)
Subsistence farming and
1
commercial intensive agriculture
At the other end is commercial intensive agriculture, including industrial
agriculture. (line 6)

4. Definition
No. Examples of Articles Signals

Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and many other
1 desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of Is
domesticated animals.

Subsistence farming, who farms a small area with limited resource inputs, and
2 Who
produces only enough food to meet the needs of his/her family.

Also, agricultural production accounts for less than five percent of the gross
3 Punctuation
world product (an aggregate of all gross domestic products).
5. Convert last paragraph into diagram
1. As of 2006, an estimated 36 percent of the world’s workers are employed in agriculture (down from
42% in 1996), making it by far the most common occupation. (line 29)

World Workers in 2006

Non Agriculture Agriculture

42%

58%

World Workers
1996 2006
64
58

42
36

Non Agriculture Agriculture