Agriculture is simply defined as the science and business of cultivating crops and rearing of animals (livestock), for man’s use and economic purpose. Animals reared or those that can be raised in the farm are called farm animals.

Agriculture is one of the oldest means of livelihood and it’s still very much lucrative now. It is derived from the Latin words ager meaning soil and cultura meaning cultivation.

It is a broad term encompassing all aspects of crop production, horticulture, livestock farming, forestry, fisheries etc.

Types of Agriculture
There are basically two types of agriculture

Subsistence Agriculture whereby farmers cultivate crops and rear farm animals for family use only with little or no farm product for the market.
Commercial Agriculture whereby farmers cultivate crops and rear farm animals enough to feed a community, state, nation or nations.

Scope
Agriculture is the most important enterprise in the world. I say this because almost everything around you is from the farm. Agriculture is a manufacturing plant, where the free gift of nature such as land, water, air, soil energy etc are used as inputs and then converted into a single essential unit, that is crop plants and their yield which are vital for human beings.

Those principal units are bump off through animals and are converted into secondary units like milk, meat, eggs, honey, wool, silk hides, etc.

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