Category: agriculture...

Agriculture still drafts into its service more of the world's aggregate manpower than all other occupations combined.
Archaeologists date agriculture techniques to at least 7000 BC.
The top farming countries are China, Australia, and the United States.
The top vegetable crop is sugar cane while tomatoes, watermelons, oranges, bananas, grapes, and apples are the top fruit crops. Chickens are by far the top livestock raised.
Niche farming includes things like cultivating heirloom tomatoes or exotic herbs.
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. (AB Nobel)
Subsistence farmers produce only enough to feed their household, more common in developing nations.
Because shoppers prefer cheap food, the cost of raising livestock and crops must be kept to a minimum. The cornfield in Iowa not only feeds the animals but provides the major ingredient in almost all processed foods. Of 45,000 items in a supermarket, more than one-quarter contain corn.
The agricultural revolution took place in the 18th century. Around 1750, things began such as large-scale farming, intensive selective breeding of livestock, four-field crop rotation - all developed in Britain.