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  2. Barley - Wikipedia

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    Barley prefers relatively low temperatures and well-drained soil to grow. It is relatively tolerant of drought and soil salinity but is less winter-hardy than wheat or rye. In 2022, barley was fourth among grains in quantity produced, 155 million tonnes, behind maize, wheat, and rice.

  3. Hordeum spontaneum - Wikipedia

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    Hordeum spontaneum, commonly known as wild barley or spontaneous barley, is the wild form of the grass in the family Poaceae that gave rise to the cereal barley (Hordeum vulgare). Domestication is thought to have occurred on two occasions, first about ten thousand years ago in the Fertile Crescent and again later, several thousand kilometres ...

  4. Ancient Egyptian agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Their farming practices allowed them to grow staple food crops, especially grains such as wheat and barley, and industrial crops, such as flax and papyrus. [ 2 ] Beginnings of agriculture

  5. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    From 100 BC to 1600 AD, world population continued to grow along with land use, ... Barley and wheat cultivation – along with the domestication of cattle, ...

  6. History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    A variety of crops were grown, including food crops such as wheat, rice, and barley, and non-food cash crops such as cotton, indigo and opium. By the mid-17th century, Indian cultivators begun to extensively grow two new crops from the Americas, maize and tobacco. [53]

  7. Timeline of agriculture and food technology - Wikipedia

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    7500 BC – PPNB sites across the Fertile Crescent growing wheat, barley, chickpeas, peas, beans, flax and bitter vetch. Sheep and goat domesticated. 7000 BC – agriculture had reached southern Europe with evidence of emmer and einkorn wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggest that a food producing economy is adopted in Greece and the Aegean.

  8. Founder crops - Wikipedia

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    Wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum) is more widely distributed than either wheat species, growing across the Eastern Mediterranean, Southwest Asia, and as far east as Tibet, but is most common in the Fertile Crescent. [14] Its tolerance for dry conditions and poor soils allows it to thrive in arid steppe and desert environments. [14]

  9. Prehistoric agriculture on the Great Plains - Wikipedia

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    Minor crops such as sunflowers, goosefoot, tobacco, [1] gourds, and plums, little barley (Hordeum pusillum) and marsh elder were also grown. Maize agriculture began on the Great Plains about 900 AD. Evidence of agriculture is found in all Central Plains complexes.