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Cultivation, in agriculture and horticulture, the loosening and breaking up (tilling) of the soil or, more generally, the raising of crops. The soil around existing plants is cultivated—by hand using a hoe or by machine using a cultivator—to destroy weeds and promote growth by increasing soil.
- Mattock
Mattock, digging implement, one of the oldest tools of...
- Harrow
Harrow, farm implement used to pulverize soil, break up crop...
- Terrace Cultivation
terrace cultivation, method of growing crops on sides of...
- Hoe
Hoe, one of the oldest tools of agriculture, a digging...
- Tillage
tillage, in agriculture, the preparation of soil for...
- Shifting Agriculture
shifting agriculture, system of cultivation that preserves...
- Mattock
- Introduction
- Cultivation
- Domestication
- Specialized Types of Livestock Management and Crop Production
- Agriculture as Landscapes of Food Production
Agriculture is the most comprehensive word used to denote the many ways in which crop plants and domestic animals sustain the global human population by providing food and other products. The English word agriculture derives from the Latin ager (field) and colo (cultivate) signifying, when combined, the Latin agricultura: field or land tillage. But...
Cultivation is an activity through which humans become directly involved in the management of the lives and life cycles of certain plants. In abstract terms, this can be considered a change from a largely extractive approach to subsistence (collecting) towards a highly regulative one (Ellen 1994), with seasonal scheduling of labor for delayed retur...
Domestication is most clearly defined as a biological phenomenon, that is, by traits in crops that result from adaptation to cultivation and by which they differ from close wild relatives. Several recurrent “domestication syndromes” can be recognized as sets of characters that define domesticated crops and characterize domestication as a form of co...
In this section, we examine briefly several distinctive types of agriculture that developed over time into specialized systems focused on the production of food and often also secondary products such as hides, hair, wool, building materials, and many other useful items.
The beginnings of food production represent a strategic shift in human behavior, towards the manipulation of the soil environment and through an influence on the composition of plant populations grown in that soil, via preferential seeding and tending of one or a few species. While cultivation may involve a range of practices, and these will tend t...
There are two types of cultivation, vegetative planting and seed agriculture, and you might have tried these out in your own backyard or balcony gardens. Seed agriculture refers to the reproduction of plants by using seeds.
Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, domesticating species of plants and animals and creating food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. It began independently in different parts of the globe, both the Old and New World.
Finally, you’ll hear discussions of certain types of development, such as sustainable development. But what does all this mean? It turns out that “development” does not have one single, simple definition. There are multiple definitions and multiple facets to any one definition.
Development geography is a branch of geography which refers to the standard of living and its quality of life of its human inhabitants. In this context, development is a process of change that affects peoples' lives.
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There are two processes in shifting cultivation: 1) farmers must remove and burn the earth in a manner called slash-and-burn agriculture where slashing the land clears space, while burning the natural vegetation fertilizes the soil, and 2) farmers can only grow their crops on the cleared land for 2-3 years until the soil is depleted of its ...
