APG 203 Lecture Notes - Organic Farming
Document Summary
Agriculture: cultivation that requires more labor than horticulture does; uses land intensively and continuously, uses domesticated animals, many agriculturalists use animals of a mean of production. Irrigation: cultivate a plot year after year, capital investment that increases in value. Cultivation: benefits of agriculture, long term yield per area is greater and more dependable than horticulture, agricultural societies tend to be more densely populated than horticultural ones. Intensive cultivators are sedentary: agricultural economies grow increasingly specialized, one or a few caloric staples- rice, animals that are raised, agricultural economies pose series of regulatory that central government often have arisen to solve. In real time, most economies combine foraging, horticultural, and agricultural features: organic farming and urban community gardens are horticultural features of our economy.
