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2. Of general matters appertaining to agriculture, and of the different kinds of corn 3. Of the various agricultural duties suitable to each month 4–5. Of the cultivation of the vine 6–8. Of the making of wine 9. Of the cultivation of the olive and the making of oil 10–12. Of horticulture 13. Of the animals and insects injurious to plants 14.
The book was composed from 1625 to 1628 [7] and published in 1639, [8] totalling 700,000 words. [9] Complete Treatise on Agriculture summarises many of the agricultural experiences and techniques of the ancient Chinese working people, [10] citing over 300 kinds of ancient works and documents. [11]
Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (/ ˌ k ɒ l j ə ˈ m ɛ l ə /, Arabic: Yunius [1]: 12 ) was a prominent Roman writer on agriculture in the Roman Empire. [ 2 ] His De re rustica in twelve volumes has been completely preserved and forms an important source on Roman agriculture , together with the works of Cato the Elder and Marcus Terentius ...
Books about agriculture, an activity which encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry for food and non-food products. 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 .
Nor is the theory of agriculture wholly omitted : the book is indeed chiefly intended to facilitate the practice of husbandry, and introduce the various improvements that have been lately made in that useful and necessary art; but it should at the fame time be remembered, that every method of practice is founded on reason or theory; arid ...
The Nabataean Agriculture is the most influential book on agriculture in Arabic. [22] Dozens of writers used it as a source, from the Middle Ages until the 18th century. [68] It was the first agronomical work to reach al-Andalus (modern Spain and Portugal), and became an important reference for the writers of the Andalusi agricultural corpus.
The library's Special Collections houses rare materials related to the history of agriculture, including books, manuscripts, paintings and drawings, seed catalogs, agricultural photographs, and posters from the 1500s to the present. The subjects covered include horticulture, entomology, poultry sciences, and natural history.
Agriculture terraces were (and are) common in the austere, high-elevation environment of the Andes. Inca farmers using a human-powered foot plough. The earliest known areas of possible agriculture in the Americas dating to about 9000 BC are in Colombia, near present-day Pereira, and by the Las Vegas culture in Ecuador on the Santa Elena peninsula.