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The business of growing crops and raising animals for food and related products and services.
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Is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals.
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Agriculture
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Encompasses all activities related to the cultivation of the soil to grow crops and to raise livestock. It also includes the processing of plant and animal products into forms that are suitable for human consumption such as food, clothing, construction materials, and paper products.
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It is the practice of cultivating plants that help in the development of human civilization.
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It is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock.
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The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
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uses techniques developed over decades or centuries to ensure good, sustainable yield over time in a particular area or geopolitical area based on mixed crops complementing each other. On tiny family farms and in developing nations, traditional agricultural methods are most commonly practiced. Crops are mixed, often using the same crop's various varieties, and are sometimes planted in related communities. Modern
agriculture
, on the other hand, is an emerging approach to agricultural innovation and farming methods that helps farmers boost effectiveness and decrease the quantity of natural resources such as water, soil and power needed to satisfy the requirements of the world in terms of food, fuel and fiber.
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Is the traditional or scientific farming methods that involve the production of crops or plants, animals, or livestock, as well as fisheries for subsistence or basic livelihood by a small-holder farmer or for large scale investment for big cash or trade by a commercial farmer.
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Agriculture
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The broad field that includes efforts of farming, planting, fisheries, and downstream agro-based and agro-processing industries. In Malaysia,
agriculture
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Science or practice of farming (soil cultivation for growing crops and grazing animals) to provide food, wool, and other products.
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The field of growing crops and keeping animals.
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A pool of establishments engaged in growing crops, raising animals, and harvesting fish and other animals.
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Is the process of producing food, forage, fiber, and various other products by the cultivation the soil and the rearing of domesticated animals.
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Any farm-based activity, including: cultivation, animal-husbandry and forestry.
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Is 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 (agribusiness).
Agriculture
was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.
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It involves the science and art in food cultivation and rearing animals.
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A pool of establishments engaged in growing crops, raising animals, and harvesting fish and other animals.
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