crop cultivation
Tilling and planting
Crop cultivation is the practice of growing plants for food, fiber, or other uses.
It encompasses the full cycle of agricultural work—preparing soil, planting seeds, tending growing plants, and harvesting.
The term emphasizes deliberate human management of plant growth, distinguishing farming from gathering wild plants: Ancient peoples transitioned from foraging to crop cultivation around 10,000 years ago.
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- tractorAgricultural pulling vehicle
- pest controlManaging unwanted organisms
- wheatCereal crop for flour
barley · domestication · green revolution · soil fertility · rice · food security · harvest time · rainfall · fertilization · terracing · tillage · plow · agriculture · rows · mulching · cultivar · compost · nitrogen fixation
- Rural Agriculturefarmers, farming communities, ranchers, farm workers, dairy farmers
- Agriculture & Nutritioncrops, soil, gardens, seeds, harvest
- primary industriesforestry, ranching, quarrying, aquaculture, lumbering
- ancient farmingancient farming, crops, fields, early farming, sowing
- farming culturestraditional farming, traditional agriculture, indigenous farming, indigenous agriculture, farming practices
- Nile Deltasediment, papyrus, Rosetta, irrigation canals, wetlands
crop cultivationforaging
Seeking wild food sources
gathering · hunting and gathering · wild harvesting · hunting · fishing
crop cultivationwilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
rewilding · wilderness preservation · fallow land · urban development · nature preserve
crop cultivationwild nature
untamed wilderness · natural ecosystem · habitat preservation · pristine environment