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'''Agriculture''' is the intentional growing of plants for human use.
Various amounts of care are involved, from little more than scattering [[seed]]s and later checking for a [[harvest]], to large scale industrial agriculture, where thousands of [[acre]]s are devoted to growing one [[crop]], using carefully bred and selected seeds, highly processed [[man-made]] [[fertilizer]]s, and a variety of [[pesticide]]s.
The plants themselves have been selectively bred since the early days of agriculture for many characteristics, including [[fruit]] size and yield, [[disease]] and [[pest]] resistance, [[drought]] or wetness tolerance - in fact, any trait that could be imagined to be useful.
While it is immediately obvious that the first purpose for growing domesticated plants is to provide a stable [[food]] supply, we also grow plants for fibers to make [[clothing]], to press for oil, or to make into [[paper]]. Plants are also grown for real or perceived medicinal properties, like [[tobacco]] or poppies.
By tying a community to the location where its crops are planted, and making the production and storage of surpluses possible, agriculture led to the development of [[village]]s and [[city|cities]], and the need for, invention, and development of [[civilization]] itself.
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Various amounts of care are involved, from little more than scattering [[seed]]s and later checking for a [[harvest]], to large scale industrial agriculture, where thousands of [[acre]]s are devoted to growing one [[crop]], using carefully bred and selected seeds, highly processed [[man-made]] [[fertilizer]]s, and a variety of [[pesticide]]s.
The plants themselves have been selectively bred since the early days of agriculture for many characteristics, including [[fruit]] size and yield, [[disease]] and [[pest]] resistance, [[drought]] or wetness tolerance - in fact, any trait that could be imagined to be useful.
While it is immediately obvious that the first purpose for growing domesticated plants is to provide a stable [[food]] supply, we also grow plants for fibers to make [[clothing]], to press for oil, or to make into [[paper]]. Plants are also grown for real or perceived medicinal properties, like [[tobacco]] or poppies.
By tying a community to the location where its crops are planted, and making the production and storage of surpluses possible, agriculture led to the development of [[village]]s and [[city|cities]], and the need for, invention, and development of [[civilization]] itself.
[[Category:Technology