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Vegetable farm. Vegetable farming is the growing of vegetables for human consumption. The practice probably started in several parts of the world over ten thousand years ago, with families growing vegetables for their own consumption or to trade locally.
Rice terraces of the Hani people in Yunnan, China. Rice terrace in the Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more effective farming. Terrace agriculture or cultivation is when these platforms are created ...
These layers suggest that the ditches were deliberately constructed by people. [3] Additional archaeobotanical evidence, dated to between 6,900 and 6,400 years ago, has been discovered showing the cultivation of bananas and sugar cane at Kuk Swamp. [4] Numerous banana phytoliths have been found in the cultivation plots of the swamp.
The word agriculture is a late Middle English adaptation of Latin agricultūra, from ager 'field' and cultūra 'cultivation' or 'growing'. [7] While agriculture usually refers to human activities, certain species of ant , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] termite and beetle have been cultivating crops for up to 60 million years. [ 10 ]
Jia's book was also very long, with over one hundred thousand written Chinese characters, and it quoted many other Chinese books that were written previously, but no longer survive. [89] The contents of Jia's 6th century book include sections on land preparation, seeding, cultivation, orchard management, forestry, and animal husbandry.
The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible. [1]
Cultivation may refer to: The state of having or expressing a good education , refinement, culture, or high culture; Gardening; The controlled growing of organisms by humans Agriculture, the land-based cultivation and breeding of plants (known as crops), fungi and domesticated animals
Aglaonema modestum, called Chinese evergreen, green-for-ten-thousand-years, and lily of China, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Aglaonema, native to Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and southeast and south-central China. [2] In these areas, it is found in tropical swamps and rainforests. [3]