Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities. While humans started gathering grains at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers only began planting them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle were domesticated around 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. In the 20th century, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monocultures came to dominate agricultural output.
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production aquaculture and forestry for food and non-food products Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities While humans started gathering grains at least 105000 years ago nascent farmers only began planting them around 11500 years ago Sheep goats pigs and cattle were domesticated around 10000 years ago Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world In the 20th century industrial agriculture based on large-scale monocultures came to dominate agricultural output