Agriculture: Features and Characteristics—An Overview

P.K. Paul¹ , R.R. Sinha² , Anil Bhuimalli³ , K.S. Tiwary⁴ , Pappachan Baby⁵ , Ricardo Saavedra⁶

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.6 , pp.156-161, Dec-2020

Online published on Dec 31, 2020

Copyright © P.K. Paul, R.R. Sinha, Anil Bhuimalli, K.S. Tiwary, Pappachan Baby, Ricardo Saavedra . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Agriculture is a broad concept and deals with various kinds of methods regarding the betterment in cultivation and farming and cultivation is considered as a small part of the agriculture. The expert expressed that Agriculture is a scientific study, procedure and policies in cultivation and farming. Normally it is considered thatfarming is done in a small area but agriculture is broader. Moreover, farming is considered in a family or group of families or small number of people engaged for the agriculture or in the process of food production. There arevarious inputs and methods inAgricultural Systems and also run by the industrial support and thereafter it is refereeing as Industrial Agriculture.It is far different than traditional agricultural systems wider regarding theproduction of food for humans andanimal.Internationally the population has changed and increasing therefore the methods of agricultural systems also shifting into newer and innovative one. Though in western world the ‘green revolution’ has changed agricultural systems many ways and thereafter farms have engaged in agriculture with solid and rapid productively and with types. Among the changes few valuable arehydroponics, plant breeding, hybridization, gene manipulation, healthy soil management, modern weeding controlling, Genetic engineering, use of Nanotechnology, Information Technology etc. areimportant for enhancing higher yields and disease resistance.The advancement of the technologies isnoticeable in agricultural sciences including the Information Technology and Management applications. This is conceptual paper and deals with various aspects of agriculture especiallywith evolution, types, methods, emerging concern, related and allied areas of agriculture in brief.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Agriculture, Agricultural Science, Modern Agro Systems, Agricultural Methods, Foods, Development

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