Agriculture

In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of producing or growing a single crop, plant, or livestock species, variety, or breed in a field or farming…

Biodiversity or Biological diversity is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem levels. It is a term that describes the variety…

Crop Rotation is defined as the intentional planting of different types of crops in different parts of the field and at different seasons in a…

Crop rotation is a very practical way of farming. It is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same…

Heirloom plants are older cultivars of a particular fruit or vegetable that are grown in very small numbers today. Heirlooms do not play a large…

An heirloom plant, heirloom variety, heritage fruit (Australia and New Zealand), or heirloom vegetable (especially in Ireland and the UK) is an open-pollinated cultivar that…

Polyculture is an agricultural method also known as mixed cropping. In adopting polyculture, the farmer dedicates agricultural land to multiple crops or animals at once.…

In agriculture, “Monoculture Farming” is a relatively new technique, and it is now the basis for most of our agriculture. Really, it is nothing more…

Monoculture farming means that on a given agricultural land is grown only one species of a crop at a time. If two or more species…

Genetically Modified (GM) foods were first approved for human consumption in the United States in 1994, and by 2014–15 about 90 percent of the corn,…

Genetically Modified Organisms (GOMs) are being created and grown across the globe. Genetic modification occurs when the DNA of one living thing is added into…

Agricultural pollution may come from a variety of sources, ranging from point source water pollution (from a single discharge point) to more diffuse, landscape-level causes,…