Hey guys for awhile now i have not be able to participate on #dailycelestialchallenge due to the fact that i was not able to get internet,thank God am back and thanks to @sirknight for initiating this #celestialchallenge it really makes steemit a place to be.
Today i went for research on the history of agriculture and i found out that agriculture started from the time of creation, and it also records the domestication of plants and animals and the development and dissemination of techniques for raising them productively.
Wild grains were collected and eaten from at least 20,000 BC. From around 9,500 BC, the eight Neolithic founder crops—emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas, and flax—were cultivated in the Levant. Rice was domesticated in China between 11,500 and 6,200 BC, followed by mung, soy and azuki beans. Pigs were domesticated in Mesopotamia around 11,000 BC, followed by sheep between 11,000 and 9,000 BC.
Since 1900, agriculture in the developed nations, and to a lesser extent in the developing world, has seen large rises in productivity as human labour has been replaced by mechanization, and assisted by synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and selective breeding. The Haber-Bosch process allowed the synthesis of ammonium nitrate fertilizer on an industrial scale, greatly increasing crop yields.
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if not for agriculture only God knows what we humans would had be feeding from thanks for reading God bless you