Agriculture

The practise of raising cattle and plants is known as agriculture.  The development of agriculture, which allowed people to raise domesticated animals to produce surpluses of food that allowed people to live in cities, was crucial in the rise of sedentary human civilization. Agriculture has a long history dating back thousands of years. Beginning at least 105,000 years ago, people began harvesting wild grains, and around 11,500 years ago, they started planting them. Domestication of pigs, sheep, goats, and cattle dates back more than 10,000 years. In at least 11 different parts of the world, plants have been grown independently. Even though 2 billion people still relied on subsistence agriculture in the twentieth century, industrial agriculture based on extensive monoculture grew to dominate agricultural output.