AGRICULTURE & FISHERY ARTS

REVIEW
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WHAT IS
AGRICULTURE?
 Answer......
It is an art and
science of systematic
production of useful
and animals for
human consumption.
 Answer......

It is not only refers

to the growing plants,
the raising animals or
both but also forestry
and fish cultivaation.
 Answer......
Is the Cultivation and
Breeding of Animals
and plants to provide
food, fiber, Medicinal
plants and other
products to sustain
and enhance life.
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Why is it considered
as an art?
 Answer......

Because of the
aesthetic importance
of plants usually for
decorative purposes.
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Why is it considered
a Science?
 Answer......

Because of the
involvement of scientific
knowledge for better
production.
 Importance of Agriculture
Marketable
Source of Surplus
Source of Foreign
Livelihood
Source of Exchange (Import
Food as well & Export)
as Fodder
 Importance of Agriculture
Significance Economic
Great Employment
Source of in Transport Development
Opportunities
Raw Materials
for Industries

Food Security
 3 F’s

FARMER
FARMING FARM -The Person
-Process -The Land
 BRANCHES OF AGRICULTURE

PLANT ANIMAL
HORTICULTURE INDUSTRY
INDUSTRY
 BRANCHES OF AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURE FARM
AQUACULTURE ENGINEERING
ECONOMICS
 BRANCHES OF AGRICULTURE
Is the science and art of
growing and using fruits,
vegetable, flowers,
HORTICULTURE ornamental plants and
grasses to enhance our
living environment and to
diversify human diets
 DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE
LANDSCAPE
OLERICULTURE HORTICULTURE
-VEGETABLES FLORICULTURE ORNAMENTAL
FLOWERING PLANTS

POMOLOGY PLANTS
FRUIT TREE
 BRANCHES OF AGRICULTURE
Growing of plants that are used for
staple crops and fiber crops.
Staple Food - is one that is
PLANT regularly consumed in large
quantities as to form the basis of a
INDUSTRY traditional diet and which serves as
a major source of energy and
nutrients.
 PLANT INDUSTRY

Is one that is regularly consumed

in large quantities as to form the
Staple Food basis of a traditional diet and
which serves as a major source of
energy and nutrients.
DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE
CEREAL ROOT
FRUIT
CROPS &TUBER CROPS
CROPS

PALMS PULSES
 PLANT INDUSTRY

Field Crops grown for their fibers,

which are traditionally used to
Fiber Crops make paper, cloth, or rope.
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 ANIMAL INDUSTRY
Is the branch of agriculture concerned with
animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, eggs,
or other products and other raw product for
industry.
 AQUACULTURE
-Is the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs,
aquatic plants, algae, and other organisms.
-It involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater
populations under controlled conditions and can
be contrasted with commercial fishing.
 AQUACULTURE
-Mariculture - refers to aquaculture practiced in
marine environments and in underwater habitats..
 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
-Is an applied field of economics concerned with
application of economic theory in optimizing the
production and distribution of food and fibre- a
discpline known as AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS
 FARM ENGINEERING
It is the application of engineering technique to
agriculture.