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What do you understand by the term Agriculture'? Why is it the most widely accepted occupation of the humans?    

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(a) Agriculture: The word agriculture is derived from the Latin words 'agri? and 'culture'. The word 'agri7 means soil and 'culture7 means cultivation or tilling of soil. Thus, agriculture is the art of cultivating or tilling the soil and raising crops.

(b) Agriculture is the most widely adopted occupation of the humans because:

(i) Agriculture is one of the primitive sources of obtaining food.

(ii) Humans used to live in forests or open lands before the colonial period.

(iii) In most of the countries, majority of people still live in villages and are dependent upon agricultural practices for their subsistence.