AGRICULTURE

By: Hunter

What is Agriculture??
Agriculture is also called farming is the
cultivation of animals, plants, and other life
forms for food, and other products used to
sustain human life.
There are fifteen different types of
agriculture.

The Types

Agro forestry
Alley Cropping
Crop Rotation
High-Input Agriculture
Corporate Farming
Interplanting
Low Input

Low-Till
Monoculture
Organic Farming
Plantation
Polyculture
Polyvarietal Cultivation
Subsistence
Tillage

AGRO FORESTRY
Is a system of land use in which harvestable
trees are grown around crops or on pasture
land as a means of preserving the
productivity of the land.

ALLEY CROPPING
Is a method of planting crops is strips with
rows of trees on each side. This helps with
wind and with nutrients

CROP ROTATION
Is the practice of growing a series of different
types of crops in the same area in sequential
seasons

HIGH-INPUT
Includes the use of mechanized equipment,
chemical fertilizer and pesticides

CORPORATE FARMING
A system characterized by mechanization,
with an emphasis on maximizing productivity

INTER CROPPING
Is to grow more than one crop in the
same field

INTER PLANTING
Growing two different crops in
the same field at the same time.

LOW INPUT
Is farming that depends on hand tools and
natural fertilizers; lacks large scale irrigation

MONOCULTURE
Is the cultivation of a single crop

ORGANIC FARMING
Relies on techniques such as crop
rotation, green manure, compost
and biological pest control. Organic
farming uses fertilizers and
pesticides but excludes or strictly
limits the use of manufactured
fertilizers, pesticides

PLANTATION
A commercial tropical agriculture system that
is essentially export oriented.

POLYCULTURE
Is the use of different crops in the same
space, in imitation of diversity of natural
ecosystem, and avoids large stand of
monoculture.

POLYVARIENTAL CULTIVATION
Planting a plot of land with several varieties
of the same crop.

SUBSISTENCE
Is agriculture carried out for survival

TILLAGE
Is the conventional method in which the
surface is plowed which then breaks up and
exposes the soil.

MAIN PARTS
Irrigation
Sustainable Agriculture

IRRIGATION
Is the use of water to water plants, farms ect.
Three-quarters of all freshwater used on
Earth is used for agriculture.

Sustainable Agriculture
Uses three main goals:
Environmental health
Economic profitability
Social and economic equity

REVIEW
1. What is Agriculture?
-is the cultivation of animals,
plants, and other life forms for
food, and other products used to
sustain human life.

REVIEW
2. What type of Agriculture uses only one crop?

-Monoculture

REVIEW
3. What is this symbol?

-Organic Farming

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4. Why is agriculture important?

-It provides a source of

food for the world

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5. What is the process of growing a series of
different types of crops in the same area in
sequential seasons?

-Crop Rotation

LINKS
http://www.agriculture.com
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdah
ome
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2077260
917/harvestgeek-brains-for-your-garden

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