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AGRICULTURE
By: Hunter
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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.
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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
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GRO 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.
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ALLEY CROPPING Is a method of planting crops is strips with
rows of trees on each side. This helps with
wind and with nutrients
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CROP ROTATION
Is the practice of growing a series of different
types of crops in the same area in sequential
seasons
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HIGH-INPUT
Includes the use of mechanized equipment,
chemical fertilizer and pesticides
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CORPORATE FARMING
A system characterized by mechanization,
with an emphasis on maximizing productivity
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INTER ROPPING
Is to grow more than one crop in the
same field
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INTER PL NTING
Growing two different crops inthe same field at the same time.
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LOW INPUT
Is farming that depends on hand tools and
natural fertilizers; lacks large scale irrigation
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MONOCULTURE
Is the cultivation of a single crop
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ORGANIC FARMING
Relies on techniques such as croprotation, green manure, compostand biological pest control. Organic
farming uses fertilizers andpesticides but excludes or strictlylimits the use of manufactured
fertilizers, pesticides
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PLANTATION
A commercial tropical agriculture system that
is essentially export oriented.
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POLYCULTURE
Is the use of different crops in the same
space, in imitation of diversity of natural
ecosystem, and avoids large stand of
monoculture.
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POLYVARIENTAL CULTIVATION
Planting a plot of land with several varieties
of the same crop.
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SUBSISTENCE
Is agriculture carried out for survival
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TILLAGE
Is the conventional method in which the
surface is plowed which then breaks up and
exposes the soil.
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MAIN PARTS
Irrigation
Sustainable Agriculture
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IRRIGATION Is the use of water to water plants, farms ect.
Three-quarters of all freshwater used on
Earth is used for agriculture.
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Sustainable Agriculture
Uses three main goals:
Environmental health
Economic profitability
Social and economic equity
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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.
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REVIEW
2. What type of Agriculture uses only one crop?
-Monoculture
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REVIEW
3. What is this symbol?
-Organic Farming
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REVIEW
4. Why is agriculture important?
-It provides a source of
food for the world
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REVIEW
5. What is the process of growing a series of
different types of crops in the same area in
sequential seasons?
-Crop Rotation
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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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