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A Note on Practice of Cultivating Plants and Livestock

Salena Day

The technique of growing plants and livestock is known as agriculture. Agriculture was a significant factor in the rise of stationary human civilization, as it enabled humans to live in cities by creating food surpluses from domesticated species. Agriculture has a long history dating back thousands of years. Farmers began planting wild grains roughly 11,500 years ago, after harvesting them for at least 105,000 years. Domestication of pigs, sheep, and cattle began over 10,000 years ago. Plants were grown independently in at least 11 different parts of the world. In the twentieth century, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture evolved to dominate agricultural output, despite the fact that about 2 billion people still relied on subsistence agriculture.