Agriculture

and Its
Divisions
 Learning Objectives:

By the end of the period, you should be able to:

1. define agriculture as a science, an art, and

as a business;
2. distinguish and correlate the different
divisions of Agriculture; and
3. appreciate the careers in agriculture.
What is
Agriculture? Latin words:
ager means "field"
cultura means "cultivation or growing"

Merriam-Webster (2020)
“the science, art, or practice of cultivating the
soil, producing crops, and raising livestock
and in varying degrees the preparation and
marketing of the resulting products”
 Agriculture is a/an
SCIENCE ART BUSINESS
-source of
-it utilizes the - it requires skills livelihood
scientific method honed by

experience - products (raw
- it does not
materials) are
arrive at - farmers needed by the
irrational developed industries
decisions speed, precision,

and techniques - everyone will
- it can be a form through constant buy agricultural
of trial and error practice products
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Thank You!
Do you have any questions
before we go?
As an aspiring agriculturist, select on of the Homework
divisions/specilizations on how you would
practice Agrcitulture as a science, as an art,
and as a business.

Write the specialization of your choice at the

center of the diagram, provide a brief but
comprehensive description of the
specialization, and then give 3 activities which
could portray the specialization as a science,
as an art, and as a business.