27/07/2010 · Animal husbandry is a branch of agriculture concerned with the domestication of, care for, and breeding of animals such as dogs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, and other like creatures. Animal husbandry began in the so-called Neolithic Revolution around 10,000 years ago but may have begun much earlier.

19/08/2019 · Cattle, goats, sheep and pigs all have their origins as farmed animals in the so-called Fertile Crescent, a region covering eastern Turkey, Iraq and southwestern Iran. This region kick-started the Neolithic Revolution. Dates for the domestication of these animals range from between 13,000 to 10,000 years ago.

origins of agriculture - origins of agriculture - Animal breeding: The goal of animal breeders in the 20th century was to develop types of animals that would meet market demands, be productive under adverse climatic conditions, and be efficient in converting feed to animal products.

Early agriculture took a different path from the Old World as the Americas lacked large-seeded, easily domesticated grains (such as wheat and barley) and large domestic animals that could be used for agricultural labor. Rather than the practice in the Old World of sowing a field with a single crop, pre-historic American agriculture usually consisted of cultivating many crops in close …

19/05/2019 · Animal agriculture, or factory farming as it’s commonly known, is the mass industrialization of the breeding, raising, and slaughter of animals for human consumption.

Intensive animal farming is a relatively recent development in the history of agriculture, and the result of scientific discoveries and technological advances.Innovations from the late 19th century generally parallel developments in mass production in other industries in the latter part of the Industrial Revolution.The discovery of vitamins and their role in animal nutrition, in the first two ...

The shift to agriculture is believed to have occurred independently in several parts of the world, including northern China, Central America, and the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East that cradled some of the earliest civilizations. 1 By 6000 BCE, most of the farm animals we are familiar with today had been domesticated. 1 By 5000 BCE, agriculture was practiced in every …

Core Historical Literature of Agriculture(link is external) Cornell University. Selected agricultural texts depecting rural life and investigating agricultural technology published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text and searchable.