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The basic features of a typical rice IPM Farmer Field School are as follows: [4] [5] The IPM Field School is field based and lasts for a full cropping season. A rice FFS meets once a week with a total number of meetings that might range from at least 10 up to 16 meetings. The primary learning material at a Farmers Field School is the rice field.
The Texas Technological College Dairy Barn was used as an agricultural teaching facility until 1967.. Agricultural education is the systematic and organized teaching, instruction and training (theoretical as well as hands-on, real-world fieldwork-based) available to students, farmers or individuals interested in the science, business and technology of agriculture (animal and plant production ...
Agricultural extension is the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education.The field of 'extension' now encompasses a wider range of communication and learning activities organized for rural people by educators from different disciplines, including agriculture, agricultural marketing, health, and business studies.
Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.
Agricultural science – broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Agricultural economics – originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock – a discipline known as agronomics ...
Monoculture is the practice of growing a single crop in a given area, where polyculture involves growing multiple crops in an area. Monocropping (or continuous monoculture) is a system in which the same crop is grown in the same area for a number of growing seasons.
Farmers have long recognized that suitable rotations such as planting spring crops for livestock in place of grains for human consumption make it possible to restore or to maintain productive soils. Ancient Near Eastern farmers practiced crop rotation in 6000 BC, alternately planting legumes and cereals. [1] [2] [better source needed]
Debates within the field address the moral implications of using animals for human consumption and the responsibilities humans have toward livestock. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] It is estimated that worldwide, 74% of livestock are raised in factory farms, [ 85 ] characterized by densely confined animals.