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  2. History of agriculture in Argentina - Wikipedia

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    Impression of a Buenos Aires slaughterhouse by Charles Pellegrini, 1829.. Since its formal organization as a national entity in the second half of the 17th century, Argentina followed an agricultural and livestock export model of development with a large concentration of crops in the fertile Pampas, particularly in and around Buenos Aires Province, as well as in the littoral of the Paraná and ...

  3. Pastoralism - Wikipedia

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    A catt of the Bakhtiari people, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran Global map of pastoralism, its origins and historical development [1]. Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds. [2]

  4. Agriculture in Argentina - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, Argentina also produced 2.3 million tons of potato, almost 2 million tons of lemon, 1.3 million tons of rice, 1 million tons of orange, 921 thousand tons of peanut, 813 thousand tons of cotton, 707 thousand tons of onion, 656 thousand tons of tomato, 565 thousand tons of pear, 510 thousand tons of apple, 491 thousand tons of oats, 473 ...

  5. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Many urban children experience animal husbandry for the first time at a petting farm; in Britain, some five million people a year visit a farm of some kind. This presents some risk of infection , especially if children handle animals and then fail to wash their hands ; a strain of E. coli infected 93 people who had visited a British interactive ...

  6. Subsistence pattern - Wikipedia

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    Only a small fraction of people in industrial societies are farmers; the rest obtain money to buy their food by engaging in the complex business and service economy. [1] A significant part of the energy cost of industrial food production arises from the packaging and shipping of products to the increasingly urban consumer base. [ 6 ]

  7. Nomadic pastoralism - Wikipedia

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    Nomadic pastoralism also known as Nomadic herding, is a form of pastoralism in which livestock are herded in order to seek for fresh pastures on which to graze.True nomads follow an irregular pattern of movement, in contrast with transhumance, where seasonal pastures are fixed. [1]

  8. Agricultural colonies in Argentina - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural colonies in Argentina were a demographically and economically important part of the evolution of the country. The Argentine government, faced with large areas of fertile land that were unpopulated or settled by aboriginal tribes (unassimilated and considered undesirable for progress), encouraged European immigration , welcoming ...

  9. Tehuelche people - Wikipedia

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    The approximate distribution of languages in the southernmost regions of South America during the years of the Spanish conquest Tehuelche chiefs, located in Santa Cruz Province in the south of Argentina. The Tehuelche people, also called the Aónikenk, are an Indigenous people from eastern Patagonia in South America.