AGRICULTURE

Agriculture is the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of human civilization, with the husbandry of domesticated animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more densely populated and stratified societies. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science.
Agriculture encompasses a wide variety of specialties and techniques, including ways to expands the lands suitable for plant raising, by digging water channels and other forms of irrigation. Cultivation of crops on arable land and the pastoral herding of livestock on rangeland remain at the foundation of agriculture. In the past century there has been increasing concern to identify and quantify various forms of agriculture. In the developed world the range usually extends between sustainable agriculture (permaculture or organic agriculture) and intensive farming (industrial agriculture).
Source:http://id.wikipedia.com/accessed on November 1st 2009
Text Analysis
1. Know
Agriculture is the technique to grow plants. Agriculture encompasses agronomy, agribusiness, forestry, and agriculture product manufacture technique. Animal husbandry is also include I agriculture science.
2. Want :
a. What is the meaning of agriculture ?
b. What is the sub science of agriculture science ?
3. Learn
Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of human civilization, with the husbandry of domesticated animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more densely populated and stratified societies.



4. Conclusion
Agriculture is the production of food through farming and forestry, include irrigation, cultivation of crops, pastoral herding. In the developed world the range usually extends between sustainable agriculture (permaculture or organic agriculture) and intensive farming (industrial agriculture).

5. New Vocabularies
a. Civilization : refinement
b. Surplus : abundance
c. Encompasses : surround
d. Cultivation : digging up the ground
e. Pastoral herding : traditional shepherd
f. Arable land : farm
g. Enabled : to make possible