Jericho Ruel R.

Lopez
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Research About Agricurure

TERMINOLOGIES OF AGRI
Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops, and raising livestock. It includes
the preparation of plant and animal products for people to use and their distribution to markets.
Agriculture provides most of the world’s food and fabrics. Cotton, wool, and leather are all agricultural
products.
Agriculture also provides wood for construction and paper products.These products, as well as the
agricultural methods used, may vary from one part of the world to another.
Agriculture enabled people to produce surplus food. They could use this extra food when crops failed or
trade it for other goods.
Agriculture kept formerly nomadic people near their fields and led to the development of permanent
villages. These became linked through trade. New economies were so successful in some areas that cities
developed. The earliest societies based on intensive agriculture arose in the Fertile Crescent (which spans
the Levant, modern-day Turkey, and Iran) and along the Nile River in Egypt. Other very early agricultural
societies developed independently in Central America, East Asia, the Indus Valley, and West Africa.
Improved Technology
Many effective agricultural techniques have roots in pre-agricultural human history. For millennia, people
have used controlled burning techniques to get rid of brush and debris, allowing edible plants to grow
more abundantly and preventing larger wildfires during dry seasons. Today, large wildfires in North
America and Australia demonstrate the importance of maintaining controlled burning practices perfected
by many Native American tribes and Aboriginal Australian peoples.
Farming has also improved over the years. Early farmers cultivated small plots of land by hand, using
axes to clear away trees and digging sticks to break up and till the soil. Over time, improved farming tools
of bone, stone, bronze, and iron were developed. New methods of storage evolved. People began
stockpiling foods in jars and clay-lined pits for use in times of scarcity. They also began making clay pots
and other vessels for carrying and cooking food.

HISTORY OG AGRICULTURE
Agriculture, the cultivation of food and goods through farming, produces the vast majority of the world’s
food supply. It is thought to have been practiced sporadically for the past 13,000 years,1 and widely
established for only 7,000 years.2 In the long view of human history, this is just a flash in the pan
compared to the nearly 200,000 years our ancestors spent gathering, hunting, and scavenging in the wild.
During its brief history, agriculture has radically transformed human societies and fueled a global
population that has grown from 4 million to 7 billion since 10,000 BCE, and is still growing.3
The road to the present has not been smooth. Resource degradation, rapid population growth, disease,
changing climates, and other forces have periodically crippled food supplies, with the poor bearing the
brunt of famine. We still face many of the same challenges as our ancestors, in addition to new and even
greater threats. To successfully navigate an uncertain future, we can begin by learning from the past.
For better or for worse, agriculture was a driving force behind the growth of civilizations.
Farming probably involved more work than hunting and gathering, but it is thought to have provided 10
to 100 times more calories per acre.5 More abundant food supplies could support denser populations, and
farming tied people to their land. Small settlements grew into towns, and towns grew into cities.1
Agriculture produced enough food that people became free to pursue interests other than worrying about
what they were going to eat that day. Those who didn’t need to be farmers took on roles as soldiers,
priests, administrators, artists, and scholars. As early civilizations began to take shape, political and
religious leaders rose up to rule them, creating classes of “haves” and “have-nots.” Whereas hunter-
gatherer societies generally viewed resources as belonging to everyone, agriculture led to a system of
ownership over land, food, and currency that was not (and is still not) equitably distributed among the
people
Some have questioned whether moving away from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle was in humanity’s best
interests, pointing to problems of social inequality, malnutrition, and military conflict that followed the
adoption of farming.1,5 One prominent scientist has even called agriculture the “worst mistake in the
history of the human race.”12 That may be, but given the size and density of human populations today,
returning to a paleolithic lifestyle is not a practical option. Hunting, gathering, and farming, however, can
complement one another in ways that provide people with a more varied and abundant food supply.
People still harvest aquatic plants and animals from the sea, for example, and even urban dwellers might
find edible berries, greens, and mushrooms in their local park.

BRANCHES OF AGRICULTURE
branches of agriculture
There exist four main branches of agriculture, namely;
Livestock production
Crop production
agricultural economics
agricultural engineering.

a) Livestock production a)nomadic pastralism..this is the keeping of cattle,while moving from one
region in search of pasture and clean water.
b) poultry farming; the rearing of poultry such us chicken,goose, turkey,duck, pigeon etc
c) pig farming;rearing of pigs
d) apiculture(bee keeping) Image result for bee keeping
e) aquaculture(fish farming)
The Art and Science of Agriculture
Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising livestock.

STATUS OF AGRICULTURE
The status of innovations strategies in crop production of the Philippines needs to
be
assessed to determine the country's ability to reach optimum productivity and
income.
Furthermore, the rising demands for food coming from a rapidly growing
population have also
heightened the significance of seeking a more productive and safer food. Thus,
there is a need to
identify and assess these innovations strategies of crop production in the
Philippines. Thus, this
paper aims to: identify innovative strategies in the field of crop production in the
Philippines,
assess current advances of technology in the field of crop production in the
Philippines, and discuss
the importance of innovations and advances in the field of crop production. The
highlight of
research findings on the innovative strategies that have been imposed by the
researchers through
practicing some smart farming innovations (SFI) and digital agriculture (DA).
Advances, on the
other hand, include the use of F1 seeds, solar power irrigation system, the website
for crop planning
(Farmers' Guide Map and Agri-information support portal), and the different
applications that have
been developed as well (Rice Crop Manager, AgriDOC, and KROPS). This
improvement helped
the farmers inefficient use of water, fertilizer, and other agricultural inputs in an
environmentally
friendly way to boost crop productivity while maintaining a safer environment for
the farmers and
the people. For instance, it is concluded that the innovations above and advances in
technology in
crop production of the Philippines will be one of the milestones in attaining a
specific goal for
everyone. And that is to increase the ability of the country to produce a sufficient
amount of food
for every Filipino family. At the same time, the approach will maintain
sustainability and reduced
the impact on the environment as long as these technologies are correctly managed.
Status of Philippine Agriculture
The agriculture sector had loomed larger when it comes to employment, with
nearly two- fifths (i.e. 37 percent) of the jobs are generated by the sector. Still, the
services sector accounts for more or less half of both output and jobs in the
economy.
What is the status of agricultural exports in the Philippines?
Highlights of the Foreign Trade Statistics for Agricultural ...
The country's total agricultural trade in the first quarter of 2022, which amounted
to USD 6.45 billion, grew at an annual rate of 30.8 percent. In the fourth quarter of
2021, total trade recorded an annual increment of 25.5 percent, while in the first
quarter of 2021, total agricultural trade rose by 5.8 percent.
What is the status of Philippine agriculture during pandemic?
Gregorio said the Covid-19 pandemic reduced the volume of agricultural
production by 3.11 percent or 17.03 million tons because of a decline in
agricultural farm labor affecting about 100.77 million people.