AGRICULTURE

Agriculture is the activity of the utilization of biological resources by humans to produce food, industrial raw materials, or energy sources, as well as to manage the environment. Activities utilization of biological resources in agriculture, including those commonly understood as cultivation of crops or grow crops (English: crop cultivation) and livestock rearing (raising), although its scope may also be the use of microorganisms and bioenzim in the processing of advanced products, such as cheese making and tempeh, or just mere extraction, such as fishing or forest exploitation.

The biggest part of the world's population earns a meager living in areas in the sphere of agriculture, but agriculture contributes only 4% of world GDP. History of Indonesia since the colonial era to the present are inseparable from agriculture and plantation sector, because the sector - this sector has great significance in determining the formation of various economic and social realities in different regions of Indonesia. According to the BPS in 2002, Indonesia's agriculture sector provides employment for about 44.3% although the population only accounts for about 17.3% of total gross domestic income.

Group examines agricultural sciences agricultural sciences with the support of his supporters. The core of the agricultural sciences are biology and economics. Since agriculture is always bound by space and time, supporting sciences, such as soil science, meteorology, agricultural engineering, biochemistry, and statistics, are also studied in agriculture. Farming (farming) is a core part of agriculture because it involves a set of activities performed in cultivation. Farmers is the designation for those who carry out agricultural activities, for example "tobacco farmers" or "fish farmer". Actors livestock farming (livestock) specifically referred to as the breeders.

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