Farming becomes a good
start for people or nation to create culture or civilization because Agriculture
was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby
farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the
development of civilization.
The history of
agriculture dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven
and defined by greatly different climates, cultures, and technologies. However,
all farming generally relies on techniques to expand and maintain the lands
that are suitable for raising domesticated species. For plants, this usually
requires some form of irrigation, although there are methods of dry land
farming; pastoral herding on rangeland is still the most common means of
raising livestock. In the developed world, industrial agriculture based on
large-scale monoculture has become the dominant system of modern farming,
although there is growing support for sustainable agriculture (e.g. perm
culture or organic agriculture).
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture
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