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AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURE. By: Hunter. What is Agriculture??. Agriculture is also called farming is the cultivation of animals, plants, and other life forms for food, and other products used to sustain human life. There are fifteen different types of agriculture. The Types. Agro forestry Alley Cropping

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AGRICULTURE

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  1. AGRICULTURE By: Hunter

  2. What is Agriculture?? • Agriculture is also called farming is the cultivation of animals, plants, and other life forms for food, and other products used to sustain human life. • There are fifteen different types of agriculture.

  3. The Types • Agro forestry • Alley Cropping • Crop Rotation • High-Input Agriculture • Corporate Farming • Interplanting • Low Input • Low-Till • Monoculture • Organic Farming • Plantation • Polyculture • Polyvarietal Cultivation • Subsistence • Tillage

  4. AGRO FORESTRY • Is a system of land use in which harvestable trees are grown around crops or on pasture land as a means of preserving the productivity of the land.

  5. ALLEY CROPPING • Is a method of planting crops is strips with rows of trees on each side. This helps with wind and with nutrients

  6. CROP ROTATION • Is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons

  7. HIGH-INPUT • Includes the use of mechanized equipment, chemical fertilizer and pesticides

  8. CORPORATE FARMING • A system characterized by mechanization, with an emphasis on maximizing productivity

  9. INTER CROPPING • Is to grow more than one crop in the same field

  10. INTER PLANTING • Growing two different crops in the same field at the same time.

  11. LOW INPUT • Is farming that depends on hand tools and natural fertilizers; lacks large scale irrigation

  12. MONOCULTURE • Is the cultivation of a single crop

  13. ORGANIC FARMING • Relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control. Organic farming uses fertilizers and pesticides but excludes or strictly limits the use of manufactured fertilizers, pesticides

  14. PLANTATION • A commercial tropical agriculture system that is essentially export oriented.

  15. POLYCULTURE • Is the use of different crops in the same space, in imitation of diversity of natural ecosystem, and avoids large stand of monoculture.

  16. POLYVARIENTAL CULTIVATION • Planting a plot of land with several varieties of the same crop.

  17. SUBSISTENCE • Is agriculture carried out for survival

  18. TILLAGE • Is the conventional method in which the surface is plowed which then breaks up and exposes the soil.

  19. MAIN PARTS • Irrigation • Sustainable Agriculture

  20. IRRIGATION • Is the use of water to water plants, farms ect. • Three-quarters of all freshwater used on Earth is used for agriculture.

  21. Sustainable Agriculture Uses three main goals: • Environmental health • Economic profitability • Social and economic equity

  22. REVIEW • What is Agriculture? -is the cultivation of animals, plants, and other life forms for food, and other products used to sustain human life.

  23. REVIEW 2. What type of Agriculture uses only one crop? -Monoculture

  24. REVIEW 3. What is this symbol? -Organic Farming

  25. REVIEW 4. Why is agriculture important? -It provides a source of food for the world

  26. REVIEW 5. What is the process of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons? -Crop Rotation

  27. LINKS • http://www.agriculture.com • http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome • http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2077260917/harvestgeek-brains-for-your-garden

  28. THE END

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