Agriculture: Why is it Important?

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• Agriculture provides employment opportunities for rural people in developing countries an underdeveloped countries.

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• Farming began around 10,000 B.C. during the First Agricultural Revolution, when nomadic tribes began to farm. This is also when the eight founder crops of agriculture appeared, emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chickpeas, and flax.

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• Cities and trade relations between different regions and groups of people developed, allowing the advancement of societies and cultures.

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• Agriculture is the backbone of the economy and provides materials for humans and raw materials for industrialisation.

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• Agriculture is $992 billion of the U.S. GDP.