Agriculture, for decades, had ...

Agriculture, for decades, had been associated with the production of basic food crops. Agriculture and farming were synonymous so long as farming was not commercialized. But as the process of economic development accelerated, many more other occupations allied to farming came to be recognized as a part of agriculture. At present, agriculture besides farming includes forestry, fruit cultivation, dairy, poultry, mushroom, bee keeping, arbitrary, etc. Today, marketing, processing, distribution of agricultural products etc. are all accepted as a part of modern agriculture. these days farmers need to go beyond just crop production, i must say. It is a greedy world and no one is going to help farmers. Industrialist want to grab lands, govt want to earn money and it the farmers are suffering. I am farmer after my studies I opted for farming and believe me, I may not be a sooper rich but not a poor too. I have a small farm and I am happy . Just farmers need to be smart..