Biology of Business

agriculture

Cultivating organisms for human use. Agriculture demonstrates domestication and optimization: selecting for desired traits, managing populations, and engineering environments for production.

109 entities tagged with "agriculture"

Citations (1)

Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production

Definitions (1)

monoculture

Inventions (103)

Fire-stick farming

Hafted axe

Domestication of the dog

Domestication of goats

Domestication of millet

Domestication of rice

Domestication of sheep

Hoe

Sickle

Tobacco

Agriculture

Animal husbandry

Domestication of wheat

Domestication of barley

Quern-stone

Domestication of cattle

Domestication of pigs (Near East)

Domestication of potatoes

Domestication of sugarcane

Beekeeping

Domestication of flax

Domestication of maize

Domestication of pigs (China)

Kuk Swamp agriculture

Budj Bim eel aquaculture

Threshing board

Ard plough

Domestication of chickens

Irrigation

Cotton (New World)

Cotton (Old World)

Scythe

Cotton cultivation

Paddy field

Winepress

Kumis

Opium poppy cultivation

Domestication of cacao trees

Dry latrines

Domestication of pigeons

Domestication of soybeans

Sericulture

Milpa polyculture

Domestication of bees

Shaduf

Domestication of citrus fruit

Grafting

Domestication of coconuts

Seed drill

Nixtamalization

Domestication of cucumbers

Animal-driven rotary mill

Archimedes' screw

Multi-tube seed drill

Chuño freeze-drying

Mould-board plough

Greenhouse

Wheelbarrow

Horse collar

Nailed horseshoe

Carruca

Maple syrup

Three-field crop rotation

Chinampa

Post windmill

Domestication of vanilla

Heated greenhouse

Rain gauge

Orangery

Tjasker

Seaweed farming

Horse-drawn seed drill

Sugar beet

Nitrogen

Threshing machine

Grain cradle

Reaping machine

Lawn mower

Combine harvester

Steel plough

Portable engine

Vanilla hand-pollination

Superphosphate

Grain elevator

Traction engine

Barbed wire

Modern barbed wire

Milk-cream separator

Anthrax vaccine

Tractor

Haber process

Continuous track tractor

Three-point hitch

DDT insecticide

Glyphosate

Salmon farming

Genetically modified organism

Genetically modified plant

Automatic milking system

Genetically modified food

Herbicide-resistant GMO

Golden rice

In-ovo sexing

Organisms (4)

Fruit Trees

Legumes

Rhizobia Bacteria

Wheat

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