All articles A–Z
519,064 articles
Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service is the US Department of Agriculture's principal in-house research agency, established in 1953, with about 2,000 scientists at more than 90 locations studying food, nutrition, and natural resources.
Agricultural science
Agricultural science applies biology, economics, engineering, and data science to food and fiber production. Key facts: Green Revolution yields, CGIAR system, 40–50% social returns to research, impact assessment gaps, climate adaptation.
Agricultural subsidy
An agricultural subsidy, also known as a farm subsidy, is a government transfer to farmers through direct payments, price supports, insurance, or tariffs, totaling about $540 billion a year globally.
Agricultural technology
Agricultural technology, also known as agtech, is the set of tools, machines, and information systems applied to farming, spanning crop production, livestock management, and irrigation.
Agricultural waste
Agricultural waste (odpady rolnicze): waste from farming operations, including manure, crop and harvest residues, slaughterhouse waste, fertilizer runoff, and pesticide residues; managed by composting, anaerobic digestion, biochar, and energy recovery.
Agriculturalists
The Agriculturalists (农家, Nongjia) were a school of thought of China's Warring States period, counted among the hundred schools, teaching that rulers should till the land alongside their people; Xu Xing was its best-known figure.
Agriculture
Agriculture: cultivation of plants and rearing of animals for food, fibre and fuel. Also called farming; part of agrifood systems. Uses 72% of freshwater withdrawals; Near East origins at least 11,500 cal BP; 645 million undernourished in 2025.
Agriculture (band)
Agriculture is a Los Angeles black metal band formed in 2021, self-styled "ecstatic black metal". Members Daniel Meyer-O'Keeffe, Leah B. Levinson, Richard Chowenhill, and Kern Haug released The Spiritual Sound (2025) on The Flenser to acclaim.
Agriculture in Australia
Agriculture in Australia: crop, livestock, and horticulture production across about 439 million hectares, exporting roughly 71% of output, worth about $100 billion with fisheries and forestry in 2024-25, and forecast to ease in 2026-27 on drier conditions.
Agriculture in Brazil
Agriculture in Brazil is a top world producer and exporter of soybeans, beef, coffee, sugar, and orange juice, farming over 60 million hectares of crops.
Agriculture in Canada
Agriculture in Canada is a large, export-oriented agri-food system that generated $149.2 billion, about 7% of GDP, in 2024, with farms concentrated in the Prairies, Quebec, and southern Ontario.
Agriculture in China
Agriculture in China: crop, livestock, and aquaculture production on ~9% of world cultivated land; 2025 record grain output 714.88 Mt; household contract farming on 0.6 ha family farms since 1978 reforms.
Agriculture in France
Agriculture in France is the EU's leading agricultural producer, with €88.2 billion of output in 2022 from about 390,000 farms, led by wine, milk, cereals, and cattle.
Agriculture in Germany
Agriculture in Germany: crop and livestock production on ~16.6 million hectares by ~255,000 farms under the EU Common Agricultural Policy; wheat-led grain growing, 21.5 million pigs, East-West farm-size divide, and biogas/solar energy output.
Agriculture in Goryeo
Agriculture in Goryeo (고려, 918–1392) was the mainstay of the Korean kingdom's economy, sustained by state-led promotion policies and shifts toward annual cultivation and rice transplanting.
Agriculture in Iceland
Agriculture in Iceland (landbúnaður): grassland-based sheep and dairy farming with geothermal greenhouses on volcanic soils; meets about 50% of domestic food needs, production value 100 billion ISK in 2025, carbon-neutral target 2040.
Agriculture in India
Agriculture in India: monsoon-dependent crop and livestock sector employing about 46.1% of the workforce, with the world's largest irrigated area, 115.6 million small holdings, Green Revolution legacy, and record foodgrain output of 376.56 million tonnes.
Agriculture in Israel
Agriculture in Israel: intensive farming under water scarcity, known for drip irrigation (90% efficiency), reuse of over 87% of wastewater effluent, kibbutz and moshav settlement, declining total factor productivity since 2010-19, and wartime labor and feed disruptions.
Agriculture in Italy
Agriculture in Italy is the cultivation of crops and livestock across Italy, which leads the EU in rice, durum wheat, and tomatoes and has the EU's largest agricultural value added.
Agriculture in Japan
Agriculture in Japan is the cultivation of rice, livestock, vegetables, and fruit on small, aging family farms in a country importing over 60% of its calories.
Agriculture in Kazakhstan
Agriculture in Kazakhstan: crop farming and livestock on over 210 million hectares, a top wheat and flour exporter, shaped by Soviet collectivization, the Virgin Lands campaign, rapid productivity growth, and negative nutrient balances.
Agriculture in Nepal
Agriculture in Nepal is a sector of crop production, livestock, and forest-based activity, contributing 23% to the GDP while employing more than two-thirds of the population.
Agriculture in New Zealand
Agriculture in New Zealand: grass-fed sheep, dairy, horticulture and viticulture farming that dominates export earnings. Key facts: 1882 refrigerated meat shipment, 1892 Department of Agriculture, Fonterra 2001, 23.6 million sheep (4.5 per person), over 50% of gross emissions, $60.4 billion primary sector exports.
Agriculture in Pakistan
Agriculture in Pakistan: Indus Basin farming sector, 23.54% of GDP, 37% of labor force; wheat, cotton, rice, sugarcane; 18 million ha irrigated; salinity and groundwater challenges.
Agriculture in Sri Lanka
Agriculture in Sri Lanka encompasses crops, livestock, forestry, and fisheries, featuring a plantation sector that exports tea, rubber, and coconut, and a smallholder food-crop sector.
Agriculture in the United Kingdom
Agriculture in the United Kingdom: farming across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland; 17 million hectares (69% of land), 209,000 holdings, 453,000 workers, £4.9 billion in 2025 support payments post-CAP.
Agriculture in the United States
Agriculture in the United States: crop and livestock production on about 1.9 million USDA-defined farms, 97 percent family-owned; $177.2 billion in 2024 exports, $369.2 billion total export-supported output, record $492.8 billion production costs forecast for 2026.
Agriculture in Ukraine
Agriculture in Ukraine: large-scale farming on chernozem black-earth soils making Ukraine a top exporter of wheat, maize, barley, and sunflower oil; covers Soviet collectivization, post-1991 agroholdings, land reform, and wartime export disruption since 2022.
Agrify Corporation
Agrify Corporation, founded as Agrinamics, Inc. in 2016, is a Nevada cannabis technology company, Nasdaq-listed as AGFY, now focused on brand licensing and hemp beverages.
Agrigento
Agrigento (Girgenti; ancient Akragas, Agrigentum), Sicilian city founded around 580 BC by Gela colonists; its Valley of the Temples Doric temples became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 and the city was Italian Capital of Culture 2025.