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Agriculture: AgroforestryAgroforestry (also known as agro-sylviculture or forest farming) is a land use management system that integrates trees with crops or pasture.3 min / Deep
Discover: History of plant breedingPlant breeding started with sedentary agriculture, particularly the domestication of the first agricultural plants, a practice which is estimated to date back 9,000 to 11,000 years.3 min / Deep
Agriculture: GreenhouseIn horticulture, a greenhouse is a structure designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside it with a view to growing plants.3 min / Deep
Agriculture: HydroponicsHydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture which involves growing plants, usually crops or medicinal plants, without soil, by using water-based mineral nutrient solutions in an artificial environment.3 min / Deep
Agriculture: IrrigationIrrigation in agriculture is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.3 min / Deep
Plant breedingPlant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics.3 min / Deep
Precision agriculturePrecision agriculture is a management strategy that gathers, processes and analyzes temporal, spatial and individual plant and animal data and combines it with other information to support management decisions according to estimated variability for improved resource use efficiency, productivity, quality, profitability and sustainability of agricultural production.3 min / Deep
Seed bankA seed bank (also seed banks, seeds bank or seed vault) stores seeds to preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank.3 min / Deep
Soil scienceSoil science is the study of soil as a natural resource on the surface of the Earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils.3 min / Deep
Vertical farmingVertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically and horizontally stacked layers.3 min / Deep