technology in agriculture

Agriculture , as already mentioned, is a broad discipline which covers a broad spectrum of disciplines. It is mainly divided into two main disciplines: Crop husbandry and Animal husbandry. CROP HUSBANDRY - deals with the various aspects of crops from seed sowing, on field and off-field operations, harvesting, threshing, storage and marketing of the products. It can be further divided into the following main sub-divisions;  I) AGRONOMY Agronomy is the mother discipline of agriculture and defined as a pplication of plant, soil and related sciences for the improvement, production and  use of field crops. It is a scientific and technology oriented approach towards raising of field crops commercially on profitable grounds and management of soil resources to meet the fundamental requirements of life (food, feed and fibre). It covers the following branches of study; 1) CROP PRODUCTION � deals with the sowing, caring, harvesting and threshing of all types of the crops. 2) CROP...

Agriculture is a main discipline of plant science  and a very broad term. It can be defined in hundreds of ways, for example, An art, a science & business as well of raising crops and rearing of animals through exploiting the natural resources (soil & climate) with the coordination of socio economic infrastructure to meet the fundamental necessities of life, i.e. food, feed, fibre and shelter. Another definition is Agriculture is the cultivation of soil, management of soil and all farm operations carried out from sowing to harvesting of crops and rearing of animals at the farm. Agriculture can never be abandoned in any part of the world because there is no survival of mankind without the food production through agriculture. And not only food production but also there are so we are depending on agriculture for medicine, exports, cotton, leather and wool products, nutrition, meat, woods and straw for construction, timber and other purposes and numerous application in many o...