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Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi, and the raising of domesticated animals. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The related practice of gardening is studied in horticulture.
Agriculture encompasses a wide variety of specialties. Cultivation of crops on arable land and the pastoral herding of livestock on rangeland remain at the foundation of agriculture. In the past century a distinction has been made between sustainable agriculture and intensive farming. Modern agronomy, plant breeding, pesticides and fertilizers, and technological improvements have sharply increased yields from cultivation. Selective breeding and modern practices in animal husbandry such as intensive pig farming (and similar practices applied to the chicken) have similarly increased the output of meat. The more exotic varieties of agriculture include aquaculture and tree farming.
Agronomy is the science and technology of producing plants for food, fuel, feed, and fiber. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology, chemistry, ecology, earth science, and genetics. Agronomists today are involved with many issues including producing food, creating healthier food, managing environmental impacts, and creating energy from plants. Agronomists often specialize in areas such as crop rotation, irrigation and drainage, plant breeding, soil classification, soil fertility, weed control, insect and pest control .
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Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying. Butter consists of butterfat, water and milk proteins.
Most frequently made from cows' milk, butter can also be manufactured from the milk of other mammals, including sheep, goats, buffalo, and yaks. Salt, flavorings and preservatives are sometimes added to butter. Rendering butter produces clarified butter or ghee, which is almost entirely butterfat.
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Did you know
...that Big Max pumpkins are not really pumpkins?
...that the Roman writer Columella, amongst other works, wrote a twelve-volume book about agriculture, de re rustica?
...that certain kelp species can grow about 30 cm (1 ft) per day?
...that the highest recorded kale, grown by a farmer in Australia, was more than 2 m high?
...that with plant tissue culture it is possible to grow a complete plant out of a single plant cell?
...that leafcutter ants practice a kind of agriculture by growing fungus on plant leafs?
...that the theoretical maximum cereal yield per hectare per year in the tropics amounts to 30.000 kg?
Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is an agricultural concept which is proposed by critics of mainstream agronomical emphasis on high-level inputs of fertilizers, fossil fuels and pesticides.
Categories: Sustainability Sustainable agriculture
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