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    Agriculture is introduced as a primary economic activity that involves cultivating soil, raising crops, and livestock. Some key points made are: - Agriculture derives from the Latin words for "field" and "culture" and is defined as the art and science of cultivating soil and raising crops and livestock. - While unknown when agriculture started, it allowed early humans to transition to a settled lifestyle from being nomadic food gatherers. - Now over half the world's population is engaged in agriculture in some form, whether growing vegetables, fruits, fishing, rearing livestock, or other specialized areas like sericulture (silk production) or pisciculture (fish farming).

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    Agriculture is introduced as a primary economic activity that involves cultivating soil, raising crops, and livestock. Some key points made are: - Agriculture derives from the Latin words for "field" and "culture" and is defined as the art and science of cultivating soil and raising crops and livestock. - While unknown when agriculture started, it allowed early humans to transition to a settled lifestyle from being nomadic food gatherers. - Now over half the world's population is engaged in agriculture in some form, whether growing vegetables, fruits, fishing, rearing livestock, or other specialized areas like sericulture (silk production) or pisciculture (fish farming).

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    Agriculture: An Introduction

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    Agriculture is introduced as a primary economic activity that involves cultivating soil, raising crops, and livestock. Some key points made are: - Agriculture derives from the Latin words for "field" and "culture" and is defined as the art and science of cultivating soil and raising crops and livestock. - While unknown when agriculture started, it allowed early humans to transition to a settled lifestyle from being nomadic food gatherers. - Now over half the world's population is engaged in agriculture in some form, whether growing vegetables, fruits, fishing, rearing livestock, or other specialized areas like sericulture (silk production) or pisciculture (fish farming).

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    Agriculture

    An introduction

    Primary activities
    Extraction of raw materials from
    earths surface.
    Hunting
    Food gathering
    Fishing
    Pastoralism
    Forestry
    Mining
    Agriculture

    Secondary activities
    Processing raw materials
    converting them into finished
    goods
    Industries
    Examples:
    Making steel from iron ore
    Weaving cloth

    Tertiary activities
    Services supporting primary &
    tertiary activities
    Transport
    Trade
    Education
    Banking
    Insurance
    Advertising

    Agriculture
    Agriculture is a primary activity.
    The word is derived from the
    Latin words ager and culture
    Agriculture is defined as:
    The art and science of
    cultivating the soil and raising
    crops and livestock.

    Agriculture
    It is unknown when
    agriculture actually started
    Early men were food
    gatherers. Agriculture helped
    them lead a settled life.
    Now, more than half the
    worlds population is
    engaged in agriculture.

    Types of Agriculture
    Cultivation of vegetables for direct
    sale is called truck gardening.
    Cultivation of fruits is called
    horticulture.
    Breeding of fish in special ponds is
    called pisciculture.
    Commercial rearing of silkworms for
    silk is called sericulture.
    Cultivation of grapevine for grapes

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