Achievements of Agriculture

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Agriculture is often said to be the backbone of the countries. But in reality, agriculture is the backbone of every living being.

Milestones in agriculture

9000 BC – Birth of agriculture by the Mesopotamian population.

8700 BC – Mexican wild, Teosinte was first farmed in Central America.

7000 BC – the Chinese began to grow rice.

6700-6500 BC – Sheep were farmed in Mesopotamia

5000 BC – Potatoes were first harvested in Central America

3500 BC – Beans cultivation started in Central America

300 BC – Development of Grafting technique by ancient Greeks

1793 – Development of Cotton gin by Eli Whitney

1859 – On the Origins of Species by Sir Charles Darwin

1865 – Friar Gregor Mendel proposed his “Principles of inheritance”

1892 – Intervention of Tractor

1903 – 1933 – Development of hybridization techniques

1953 – Discovery of DNA's double helix structure

1970 – Development of Hybrid-4, the world’s first commercial cotton hybrid

2000 – Sequencing of the first plant genome, Arabidopsis thaliana

2003 – Advent of Genetically Modified Crops

2006 – Bee vectoring technology

2012 – Discovery of CRISPR enzyme