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Agriculture And Its Scope

 Agriculture 

The term Agriculture springs from two Latin words ager or agri meaning soil and cultura meaning cultivation. Agriculture is an engineering which encompasses all aspects of crop production 

Agriculture is defined as an art, science and business of manufacturing crops and livestock for economic purposes. 

As an art it embraces knowledge of the thanks to perform the operations of the farm during a skillful manner, 
but doesn't necessarily include an understanding of the principles underlying the farm practices. 

As a science: utilizes all technologies developed on scientific principles like crop breeding, 
production techniques, crop protection, economics etc. to maximise the yield and profit. for instance ,new crops and varieties developed by hybridization, Transgenic crop varieties immune to pests and diseases, hybrids in each crop, high fertilizer responsive varieties, water management, herbicides to control weeds, use of bio-control agents to combat pest and diseases etc. 

As the business: As long as agriculture is that the way of lifetime of the agricultural population production is ultimately sure to consumption. But agriculture as a business aims at maximum net return through the management of land labour, water and capital, employing the knowledge of varied sciences for production of food, feed, fibre and fuel. In recent years, agriculture is commercialized to run as a business through mechanization. 

AGRICULTURE is defined within the Agriculture act (1947), as including ‘horticulture, fruit growing, 
seed growing, dairying and livestock breeding and keeping, the utilization of land as pasture ,meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and therefore the use of land for woodlands 
where that use ancillary to the farming of land for Agricultural purposes”.
including horticulture, livestock rearing, fisheries, forestry, etc. 

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