Agriculture is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.
There are some basic agricultural practices for crop production -:
- Soil preparation
- Sowing
- Adding manure & fertilizer
- Irrigation
- Weeding
- Crop protection
- Harvesting
- Storage
- Soil preparation
Soil is prepared before sowing the seeds. The soil is loosened to increase the absorption of water and manures. Loosening of soil particles adds humus and nutrients in the soil that increases crop yields. Tilling or loosening the soil is done by ploughs which are pulled by a pair of bulls.
- Tools used
Hoe, cultivator , plough
- Sowing –
Sowing is a process of planting seeds into the soil. … All these precautions are essential for seed germination – the process of seeds developing into new plants.
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