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Agricultural economics is an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber products. Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage .
Agricultural economics is economics as it relates to the "production, distribution and consumption of [agricultural] goods and services". [245] Combining agricultural production with general theories of marketing and business as a discipline of study began in the late 1800s, and grew significantly through the 20th century. [246]
Rural economics is the study of rural economies. Rural economies include both agricultural and non-agricultural industries, so rural economics has broader concerns than agricultural economics which focus more on food systems. [1] Rural development [2] and finance [3] attempt to solve larger challenges within rural economics.
Agricultural economics today includes a variety of applied areas, having considerable overlap with conventional economics. Agricultural engineering – engineering discipline that applies engineering science and technology to agricultural production and processing. Agricultural philosophy – discipline devoted to the systematic critique of the ...
An agricultural supply store or agrocenter is an agriculturally-oriented shop where one sells agricultural supplies — inputs required for agricultural production such as pesticides, feed and fertilizers. Sometimes these stores are organized as cooperatives, where store customers aggregate their resources to purchase agricultural inputs ...
The resilience of agrifood systems builds on the concept of resilience, which originated in the study of ecosystems [27] and evolved over 50 years into an object of study across an array of disciplines, including engineering, agriculture, economics and psychology. Although there is little agreement today as to a precise definition across ...
Taylor wrote the first agricultural economics textbook in the United States in 1905. He also adapted a dot map system with William J. Spillman to show historical shifts in agricultural production. [3] By 1909 he was successful in creating the new department, the first devoted to agricultural economics in the United States. [3]
Agricultural science (or agriscience for short [1]) is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Professionals of the agricultural science are called agricultural scientists or agriculturists.