Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plats and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 1,05,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,00 years ago. Pigs, sheep, goats, and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large scale mono culture in the twentieth came to dominate agricultural output, through about 2 billion people still depended on su...
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