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Study of the application to affect agriculture / forestry / the marine products industry / the stock-raising industry with the agriculture (agricultural science).
I study a wide matter to be concerned with primary industries such as cultivation / developing new varieties of plants of farm products, the improvement of the manufacturing technique, a social principle to be concerned with processing technique and the production of products, environmental maintenance and aim at the industrial improvement and development.
I belong to the natural science of the wide sense and am based on chemistry, biology, earth science, but the social science makes the part of the base, too.
As for the forestry that influence was big, the agriculture to intend for farming place developed as study of the public people in a national finance whereas a systematization advanced as a part of emperor studies / the government college in the feudal age, and, in the past when agriculture as the field established it for one minute of the science of modern times, farming and technology and the know-how of the hunting formed a knowledge system by word of mouth tradition.
The oldest thing winning through up to a record is a clay board discovered in Mesopotamia in the 19th century B.C., and irrigation and advice about the mouse measures are written down.
The book which methods to suppress the influence on crops by the flood of the Nile small in ancient Egypt were written is found.
In addition, separately from the cultivation technology such as the crops which were staple food, developing new varieties of plants studies, the horticulture such as the greens cultivation technology, the fermentation technology were refined by the clergymen of the feudal age such as the Catholic Church, a Japanese temple.
A problem how you gave a crop to as the taxation system spread out in ancient China in the Lu Ages began to gather interest, and back Han promoted of practical agriculture study and results of research.
(around 535) of the (I lend it, today) editing of north Wei is the oldest agriculture book to exist in complete form.
In Japan, agriculture complete works were published in the Edo era.
It is said that the agricultural establishment as the modern study began led by Germany of 1840's, U.K., France.
A vocational school of the agriculture began to appear in European each place from these days, and at first many fields about farming native product were unified, and a figure of the modern agriculture was formed afterwards while integrating a field related to the creature production such as forestry or the science of fisheries.