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Enciclopedia moderna (in English: Modern Encyclopedia) (complete title: Enciclopedia moderna: Diccionario universal de literatura, ciencias, artes, agricultura, industria y comercio) is a Spanish encyclopedia published in Madrid by Francisco de Paula Mellado between 1851 and 1855. [1] It has 34 volumes and it was the first "great" Spanish ...
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. [1] Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities.
Afrikaans; Alemannisch; አማርኛ; Anarâškielâ; Ænglisc; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Արեւմտահայերէն; Arpetan; অসমীয়া
1700 – British Agricultural Revolution ends 1763 – International "Potato Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different states; 1804 – Vincenzo Dandolo writes several treatises of agriculture and sericulture.
Industrial agriculture is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of crops and animals and animal products like eggs or milk.The methods of industrial agriculture include innovation in agricultural machinery and farming methods, genetic technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale in production, the creation of new markets for consumption, the ...
Civic agriculture is a means by which rural agricultural communities can remain subsistent in a largely industrialized agriculture sector. The term was coined by the late Thomas A. Lyson, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, at the 1999 Rural Sociology Society Annual Meeting. [2]
The Agricultural Act of 1949 (Pub. L. 81–439) is a United States federal law (7 U.S.C. 1431) that is known as the "permanent legislation" of U.S. agricultural policy and is, in its amended form, still in effect.