technology in agriculture

Cotton ( Gossypium arboreum  L./ G.  hirsutum  L.)is the most important fiber crop grown globally. Cotton provides raw material for the textile industry. Cotton is the name derived from Arabic  Al-qutn . In botanical terms, cotton is the soft, fluffy staple  fibre  that is produced around the seed in the protective boll of genus  Gossypium.  The  fibre  is botanically meant for the dispersal of seed. The fibre is almost pure cellulose.  HISTORY 1. The cultivation of cotton has been reported as old as 5000 BC in the western Pakistan, for example, the Mehrgarh excavation showed cotton fibres preserved in copper beads. The cultivation then spread in the Indus Valley Civilization.  2. Evidences about the cultivation of cotton in Iran (pre-islamic Persia) also exists which dates back to almost 5th Millenium BC. From these regions, the cotton was taken to the Europe and other continents.  3. By the end of 16th century BC, cotton...

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION                Kingdom           Plantae                Division            Mangoliophyta                Class                Liliopsida                Order               Cyperales                Family              Poaceae                Genus                Triticum                Species             T.  aestivum  L. Intro to Wheat Genetics and Production Technology (Cover) WHEAT TAXONOMY In the 10,000 years of cultivation and selection p...

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...

The world around us is so precious and beautiful. There are numerous varieties of plants around us which are charming, fascination, enchanting and give us the gift of fragrance, fruits, flowers and other necessities of life. According to historians, human beings started domestication of plants around 10,000 B.C and this is the start of agriculture.  No one among us can deny the importance of plants in our daily life; our survival on this planet Earth is not possible without plants. Plant provide us food, shelter, clothing, wood for construction, medicines and important natural extracts which are part of products of our daily use like herbal soaps and herbal drinks.  So, human dependence on plants compelled our ancestors to discover, collect, domesticate and investigate various plant species, thus leading to the development of plant science aka phytology (Phyto = plant, logos = to study). This humble beginning led to the modern day agriculture. Phytology includes both a gricu...