Define agriculture and it's significance. please give big answer for 5marks
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Agriculture can be defined as the art, the science, and business of cultivating crops and livestock for economic purposes. At certain stages of human development, agriculture used to be the only known means of living.
It is derived from the Latin terms ager referring to the soil and cultura to its cultivation. Agriculture is a broad term encompassing all aspects of crop production, horticulture, livestock farming, forestry etc.
AGRICULTURE can be expanded as
A – Activities on the
G – Ground for
R – Raising
I – Intended
C – Crops for
U – Uplifting
L – Livelihood
T – Through the
U – Use of
R – Rechargeable
E – Energies
Scope and Importance of Agriculture
Agriculture is the most important enterprise in the world.
Agriculture is a production plant where the free gifts of nature such as land, water, air, soil energy, etc. are used as inputs and then converted into a single primary unit that is crop plants and their yield which are indispensable for human beings. Those primary units are consumed by animals and are converted into secondary units like milk, meat, eggs, wool, honey, silk, etc.
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