Category
page 1Agricultural revolutions
neolithic revolution
transition from hunter gatherer to settled peoples
Green Revolution
period of high agricultural technology transfer in the 1950s and 1960s
Columbian Exchange
biological exchange across Atlantic Ocean
precision agriculture
farming management strategy
Arab Agricultural Revolution
transformation in agriculture in the Old World during the Islamic Golden Age (8th to 13th centuries)
British Agricultural Revolution
increase in agricultural production in Britain in mid-17th and late 19th centuries
agricultural robot
robot in agriculture
green revolution in India
modernization of agriculture in India
agricultural drone
unmanned aerial vehicle
hoe-farming
thumb|Use of the digging stick for tillage in the [[Nuba Mountains, Southern Sudan (2001 photograph)]]
Hoe-farming is a primitive form of agriculture defined by the absence of the plough. Tillage in hoe-farming cultures is done by simple manual tools such as digging sticks or hoes.
Hoe-farming is the earliest form of agriculture practiced in the Neolithic Revolution.
Early forms of the plough (ard) were introduced throughout the Near East (Naqada II) and Europe (Linear Pottery culture) by the 5th to 4th millennium BC.
The invention spread throughout Greater Persia and parts of Central Asia, r
agricultural productivity
quotient between production and productive factors