Cleo L.

Flores Grade 11 Caregiving-Concern

PERFORMANCE III

Caregiving Earth & Science

Agricultural sciences, which deal with the processing and production of food and fiber. They
cover techniques for cultivating soil, growing and harvesting crops, raising animals, and
preparing plant and animal products for use and consumption by humans. Animals have been
working to meet this demand since more than 11,500 years ago, and both then and now, their
efforts align with humans' unceasing need to comprehend and manage Earth's ecology. Many
political figures around the world have realized.

The outcomes of widespread application of techniques have altered agricultural production. Six
individuals can bare-minimally generate enough food for themselves and four more persons in a
good harvest year under the prescientific agricultural conditions. One farmer in the United
States, for instance, is now able to feed more than 100 people thanks to advanced
technologies. By using better processing techniques, the farmer has been able to enhance
yields per acre and per animal, lower losses due to illnesses, pests, and spoilage, and boost net
production.Until the 1930s, labor-saving innovations like the cotton gin were the main
beneficiaries of agricultural research. However, crop production per acre grew significantly once
the yield potentials of the primary economic crops were increased through agricultural research.
For instance, the yields of corn, wheat, and soybeans per acre tripled, while those of soybeans
and farm productivity per hour increased by approximately ten times between 1940 and 1980 in
the United States as capital replaced labor. By enabling the transportation of food across longer
distances, new methods of food preservation also improved production efficiency by enabling
changes in the locations of production and consumption.

Early knowledge of agriculture was a collection of experiences verbally transmitted from farmer

to farmer. Some of this ancient lore had been preserved in religious commandments, but the
traditional sciences rarely dealt with a subject seemingly considered so commonplace. Although
much was written about agriculture during theMiddle ages, the agricultural sciences did not then
gain a place in the academic structure. Eventually, a movement began in central Europe to
educate farmers in special academies, the earliest of which was established at Keszthely,
Hungary, in 1796. Students were still taught only the experiences of farmers, however.

The origins and importance of science in agriculture, Since the dawn of human civilization,
agricultural practices are recognized to play a fundamental role in growing civilizations and
developing nations. Agriculture is a pivotal development in human evolution and theorized to be
one of the major turning points in transitioning from nomadic to settler lifestyles. As populations
grew, agricultural practices were increasingly refined to accommodate the greater needs for
food security.

By the first half of the 19th century, scientists had formed an extensive knowledge base of
agricultural practices and were experimenting with tools and resources to improve crop yield,
diversity, and resilience. Scientists in Germany had begun experimenting with fertilizers
whereas British scientists were studying elements of agronomy, with some experiments still
running to this day. By the start of the 20th century, the discipline of agricultural science was
burgeoning rapidly.

Similar to other scientific procedures, a process of experimentation can be identified throughout

the history of agricultural science that incorporates a treatment, a hypothesized process or
causal mechanism to be tested, and an end product addressing the treatment. This process
allows agricultural scientists to document and improve farming practices when facing multi-
faceted challenges including social, economic, and ecological issues.

Early divergences regarding agricultural science was, Interestingly, the early

development of agricultural science at the onset of the 20 th century was not widely
accepted. Research conducted by the Dutch scientist Harro Matt from 2011 outlined key
case studies of agricultural science history and described how early agricultural science
was met with little confidence from stakeholders.

farmers experiment frequently in a similar way to the experiments of agricultural scientists.

Indeed, farmers tend to trial with different crops, fertilizers, and agricultural design to best suit
changes across seasons or in response to consumer demand. The similarities between farming
and scientific experiments eventually improved the progress of agricultural science as findings
were increasingly relevant to addressing challenges for farmers. Matt explained that this was
due to the consistent efforts to improve communication methods with farmers through the use of
agricultural advisors or extension officers that communicate scientific findings. These roles were
focused primarily on communication and are crucial actors in bringing science and practice
together, a practice that should be modeled across scientific disciplines.The research about the
goals in agricultural science is the broad objectives of agricultural science are to improve crop
production to benefit farmers, consumers, and increasingly to reduce potential environmental
impacts. Studies, therefore, focus generally on crop development, resilience, quality,
reproduction, and their relationship with the surrounding environment. Although this sounds
straightforward, contemporary agricultural science now encompasses many disciplines that
overlap with other scientific disciplines.

Modern agricultural science has branched into disciplines that incorporate a considerable range
of methods and techniques from molecular tools used for gene editing to the free-air CO2
enhancement studies of agroforestry. By using increasingly refined procedures to study
treatments across biological levels of the organization as well as spatiotemporal scales,
agricultural science has emerged as a major scientific field combining a multitude of
interdisciplinary findings.

The agricultural science papers concerned with the adnvance of agriculture and the use of land
resources throughout the world. It publishes original scientific work related to strategic, applied
and interdisciplinary studies in all aspects og agricultural science and exploited species, as well
as reviews of scientific topics of current agricultural relevance.

In my own perpective we need the agricultural science to appreciate the little things like the
farmers in our country. Because without them, There is no way we could survive without
farmers. The urban population has no space to grow their own food products, or the plants and
the animals that are living this earth.