Question

What is Agriculture? Name the factors influencing Agriculture​

Answer 1

Answer:

Environmental factors that influence the extent of crop agriculture are terrain, climate, soil properties, and soil water. It is the combination of these four factors that allow specific crops to be grown in certain areas.

Answer 2

Answer:

Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock.[1] 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. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Pigs, sheep and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture in the twentieth century came to dominate agricultural output, though about 2 billion people still depended on subsistence agriculture into the twenty-first

Explanation:

Name the factors influencing Agriculture

NATURAL FACTORS INFLUENCING AGRICULTURE

Climate, land relief, soil and vegetation are the main factors which influence agricultural activity.

Climate

The growth of plants depends on the temperature and humidity of the land and the amount of light it receives.

We can't practice agriculture in areas with extreme temperatures

below 0ºC

above 45ºC

We also cant grow plants in areas of severe drought.

Land relief

Farmers prefer to cultivate crops on flat land

plains

valley bottoms

It is harder to cultivate in mountainous areas:

machines can't be used for soil preparation or harvest

terraces must be cut into the hillside

low temperatures prevent cultivation in high altitudes

Livestock farming and forestry adapt better to mountainous terrain.

The relief will also affect the available water resources.

Soil

The soil is the result of the decomposition of bedrock. Soils are made up of a series of layers called horizons.

Soil provides the nutrients necessary for plants to grow.

The fertility of the soil depends on various factors:

Depth

Deeps soils have thick evolved layers

Found in valleys and plains

Fertile soils

Thin soils are made up of external layers

found on the slopes of mountains and high plateaus

Not very fertile

Texture (influences water retention)

Sand, silt, clay

Acidity or Alkalinity

The acidity of soils is measured by their pH.

The PH of pure water is 7 (neutral)

When a soil's pH value is lower than 7 it is acidic

When its pH value is higher than 7 is is basic or alkaline

Soils which are too acidic or alkaline are not very fertile