Agriculture is the backbone of an economy. It encompasses all aspects of crop production, livestock, fisheries, forestry, etc. Agriculture is the most important human economic activity-for the production of food, fiber, fuel, etc. by the optimum use of terrestrial resource i.e. land and water.
Agriculture can be also be defined as the cultivation and/or production of crop plants or livestock products. It includes Crop Production, Animal Husbandry & Dairy Science, Agriculture Chemistry & Soil Science, Horticulture, Agric Economics, Agric Engineering, Botany, Plant Pathology, Extension Education and Entomology, which develops its separate and distinct branches of agriculture occupying places in several Agricultural Universities in the country.
Agriculture can be termed as a science, an art and business altogether.
Science: because it provides new and improved strain of crop and animal with the help of the knowledge of breeding and genetics, modern technology of dairy science.
Art: because it is the management whether it is crop or animal husbandry.
Commerce (Business): because the entire Agric produce is linked with marketing, which brings in the question of profit or loss.
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