Agriculture by type

thumb|A horticulture student tending to plants in a Market garden|garden in [[Lawrenceville, Georgia, March 2015]] thumb|The Rock Garden, Leonardslee Gardens Horticulture (from ) is the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants. Horticulture is different from general agriculture, agronomy, and gardening in that it involves specialization and controlled cultivation and management of plants and their ecosystems. It can be distinguished by its subfields and or unique botanical expressions. There are various divisions of horticulture because plants are grown for

farming method in which plants are cut and burned; burning of forest or land area for agricultural purposes

farming which meets the basic needs of the farmer and family

agriculture systems that involve low inputs and outputs relative to land area

method of organic farming based on esoteric concepts of Rudolf Steiner

techniques for non-irrigated farming when it is normally required

Shifting cultivation or Jhum cultivation

thumb|upright=1.2|alt=Diversified Crop Choices|Gender roles in agriculture|Female smallholder farmers in Kenya. In many parts of Africa and other parts of the world, women are the primary smallholders. In many contexts, women face unequal access to land, markets, knowledge, and other assets needed to maintain their farms. thumb|Small vegetable farm in Hainan, China

concept in agriculture

type of farming that uses rain for water

method of farming which involves cultivating a field partitioned into long, narrow strips which are alternated in a crop rotation system

classification of civilization

electronic agricultural data collection, storage, analysis, and sharing

Paludiculture is wet agriculture and forestry on peatlands. Paludiculture combines the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands through rewetting with continued land use and biomass production under wet conditions. "Paludi" comes from the Latin "palus" meaning "swamp, morass" and "paludiculture" as a concept was developed at Greifswald University. Paludiculture is a sustainable alternative to drainage-based agriculture, intended to maintain carbon storage in peatlands. This differentiates paludiculture from agriculture like rice paddies, which involve draining, and therefor

practice of developing agriculture in deserts