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Forms of agricultural activities in the community


these include

  1. crop farming
  2. Live-stock farming
  3. Fishery
  4. Heliculture
  5. Horticulture
  6. Apiculture




  1. crop farming :   This is a form of farming that involve planting of crops for human or animal consumption. A crop is a plant that can be grown and harvested extensively for business purspose or for family or personal sustenance. example: maize, yam,cassava, sweet potato etc.



  2. Live-stock farming :   This is a form of agriculture which involve raising of domesticated animal in an agricultural setting in order to produce products for consumption such as egg, meat, milk, leather, wool etc.



  3. Fishery :   This refers to a brach of agriculture which deals with rearing or harvesting of fish and other aquatic life or more for commercial or personal consumption.



  4. Heliculture :   this is otherwise known as snail farming, it is the process of raising land snail, majorly for human consumption or cosmetic use .



  5. Horticulture :   this can be define as a the branch of agriculture that deals with garden crops , generally fruit, vegetables , and ornamental plants. Horticulture is derived from latin word "hortus" means garden, and "colere" means cultivate.



  6. Apiculture :   Otherwise known as Beekeeping, this is the branch of agriculture which deals with rearing and maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehive. The bees are rasied for commercial purpose.



CHECK OTHER RELATED TOPICS HERE


  1. MEANING OF AGRICULTURE

  2. CLASSES AND USES OF CROPS


  3. CLASSIFICATION OF CROP BASED ON LIFE SPAN

  4. USES OF CROPS

  5. CLASSIFICATION OF FOOD AND THEIR SOURCE



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