About Agriculture

Agriculture as an art, science and business and Branches of agriculture
Agriculture as an art: Learning by doing and gaining experience. Art is concerned with skill and experience. It is inherited by seeing parents or elders through experience. E.g. art of walking of a child.
Skill of agriculture is purely derived by physical work.
Skill Physical skill
Mental skill
Agriculture primarily requires physical skill. Physical skill is inherited by doing physical work with perfect execution. E.g. opening a straight furrow, Levelling the field.
Art of agricultural requires secondarily mental skill.
Mental skill: Decision making
E.g. Selection of crops for a particular area is a skill season
Agriculture as a Science
Ø Science is systematic study of happenings of any thing
Ø Technology – to get maximum output, science helps to select a crop suitable to seasons at the appropriate time
Ø Part of science is inherited by farmers
Ø Science of agricultural tries to give reasons. Yield increase is due to application fertilizer. Yield reduction also results due to pest and disease attack
Ø Farmers will become scientists if more sophisticated methods are given. Experience makes them scientists
Ø Science of agriculture requires primarily mental skill and secondarily physical skill
Agriculture as Business
Ø Is purely business oriented nowadays
Ø Even when the yield is less, the market is close it yields more profit
Ø In agriculture business, quantity is ignored and profit is more
E.g. In Punjab, rice is produced during Kharif season for profit and commercial reason
Ø Business of agriculture is purely economic