Agriculture Apes

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AGRICULTURE

By: Hunter


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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.


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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


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GRO 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.


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ALLEY CROPPING Is a method of planting crops is strips with

rows of trees on each side. This helps with

wind and with nutrients


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CROP ROTATION

Is the practice of growing a series of different

types of crops in the same area in sequential

seasons


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HIGH-INPUT

Includes the use of mechanized equipment,

chemical fertilizer and pesticides


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CORPORATE FARMING

A system characterized by mechanization,

with an emphasis on maximizing productivity


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INTER ROPPING

Is to grow more than one crop in the

same field


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INTER PL NTING

Growing two different crops inthe same field at the same time.


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LOW INPUT

Is farming that depends on hand tools and

natural fertilizers; lacks large scale irrigation


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MONOCULTURE

Is the cultivation of a single crop


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ORGANIC FARMING

Relies on techniques such as croprotation, green manure, compostand biological pest control. Organic

farming uses fertilizers andpesticides but excludes or strictlylimits the use of manufactured

fertilizers, pesticides


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PLANTATION

A commercial tropical agriculture system that

is essentially export oriented.


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POLYCULTURE

Is the use of different crops in the same

space, in imitation of diversity of natural

ecosystem, and avoids large stand of

monoculture.


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POLYVARIENTAL CULTIVATION

Planting a plot of land with several varieties

of the same crop.


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SUBSISTENCE

Is agriculture carried out for survival


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TILLAGE

Is the conventional method in which the

surface is plowed which then breaks up and

exposes the soil.


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MAIN PARTS

Irrigation

Sustainable Agriculture


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IRRIGATION Is the use of water to water plants, farms ect.

Three-quarters of all freshwater used on

Earth is used for agriculture.


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Sustainable Agriculture

Uses three main goals:

Environmental health

Economic profitability

Social and economic equity


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REVIEW

1. What is Agriculture?

-is the cultivation of animals

plants and other life forms for

food and other products used to

sustain human life.


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REVIEW

2. What type of Agriculture uses only one crop?

-Monoculture


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REVIEW

3. What is this symbol?

-Organic Farming


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REVIEW

4. Why is agriculture important?

-It provides a source of

food for the world


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5. What is the process of growing a series of

different types of crops in the same area in

sequential seasons?

-Crop Rotation


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LINKS

http://www.agriculture.com

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdah

ome

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2077260

917/harvestgeek-brains-for-your-garden
http://www.agriculture.com/http://www.agriculture.com/


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