what is Agriculture, importance,problems and types

Definition of Agriculture

Agriculture is a practice that has to do with the cultivation of crops and rearing of animal for benefiting human satisfaction whether for consumption business or other purpose

The word (ager) agr is a latin word that means field  

cultura means growing or cultivating

when defining something you have to know what and what it does 

you have to know the process  and also the uses try making sense of it

Agriculture is a deliberate effort by man to till the soil cultivate crop rearing of animals for food and  other purpose i.e business employment /sources of income

Early days of a man it all start with the work agriculture where a family comes together to cultivate plant and keep some domestic animals for  him and  his family which is now known as subsistence farming  we can now say  subsistence  farming is the oldest  farming  system in  history it is has old  as  the agriculture itself whereas all other extension in agriculture comes after 

According to www.nationalgeographic.org  say the first domesticated animals were dogs, which were used for hunting. Sheep and goats were probably domesticated next. People also keep cattle and pigs most of these animals had once been hunted for hides and meat. Now many of these domestic animals are also sources of nutrient like milk, cheese, and butter. 

 Agriculture has kept people in the early days to settle for a community, because of the lack of activities the only thing they were involve in was how to survive and mostly hunting so with agriculture they were able to settle for villages which are successful in carrying out agricultural activities different area .This places with the help of agricultural products grew to form the development of civilization through Trading .

uses of agriculture

Aside for the fact that it brings about civilization

Agriculture does everything in our daily life from feeding us to clothe us. 

Provision of shelter

Involve in all activities of transportation

Means of exchange (trading)

There are little bits of agriculture in nearly everything you do and use every day

source of employment/income

It means of learning 

raw materials for industries and also a tradition for some communities

problem of agriculture in underdeveloped countries

IF you check countries whose economy is poor mostly have very bad agricultural scheme system especially here in west-Africa

1. Inadequate land ; lack of avaliability of land for extensive farming can cause the activities of agriculture to be limited where as people preffered to build extensive building example are the cities you no cities are full of large numbers of building it create a barrier of agricultural activities

2.Inadequate finance and credit facilities: this problem mostly comes from the government of that countries inability to provide good finance programe to encourage the farmer or individuals to accept the practice fully.

3.Poor transportation network : bad road or lack of accessibility can  cause high increase in farm product it discourage both the farmers and  the marketers if there are one

4.Inadequate storage and processing facilities: most underdeveloped or developing countries lack storage facilities where to keep the good for a very long in other to avoid storage and to give the farmer sense of wanting to do more 

5.Inadequate agricultural education and extension(application of farm input):lack of education farmers are not well skill to meet up with the increase in population they still depend on oldern days modern to carry out farm activities which brings about low in production

6.Inadequate basic amenities: like roads water electricity a place where there is no water band or low  provision of water it discourage agricultural activities or lack of avaliability of light  help in keeping farm animals save at night 

Type of Agriculture

There are only two type of agriculture are 

subsistence agriculture is a type of

 agricultural practice where the farmer only plant  crops  and rear animals for him and his family using simple farm tools 

commercial agriculture is a type of agricultural practice 

where the farmer cultivate crop and rear animal in large scale in other to  make profit and living

Differences between subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture

subsistence agriculture

small land

not for profit

does not required large capital

no  skill personnel

little or no  employment of large labour

commercial agriculture

large land

 for profit

large capital

skill personnel

Employment of large labour

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