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Agriculture is never just seeds sown and waiting to reap the harvest, but it is the pulse of civilization as well. Each grain of rice, each cob of maize, each groundnut, which is reaped, is a tale of human endurance and dexterity and link to the ground. Cogitating, as it were, farming is the most venerable liaison of man and nature. The earth provides its fecundity, the rain its moisture, the sun its heat--people their toil and skill and tend.

Agriculture in the modern days has greatly changed. The modern day farmers incorporate ancient knowledge with the new technology and fertilizer: better seedlings, irrigation systems, field mapping with drones and the calculation of when it is best to plant or harvest based on data. The improvements guarantee the increase in yields and stronger crops, which will be used to feed the constantly growing world population. But at its very foundation is the sense of valued land and the seasons of life that agriculture is centered on.

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The thing I am most fascinated by is that not only bodies are sustained by the farming, but also cultures. A farmer in Nigeria who cultivates yams, rice farmer in Asia, a wheat farmer in Europe is participating within the traditions which have been passed through generation. These crops have dictated diets, festivals and even languages. A single crop may supply nourishment to a group of people in the surrounding community, revenues to feed children, and businesses in the supply line chain- transportation of products, buffering, processing of goods.

Of course, the problems still exist: there are pests, no predictable weather, soil erosion and price volatility that challenge the strength of farmers all the time. Farmers seldom despair. They do change, they improvise and they survive, as they understand the truth, agriculture is not simple job, but it is a means of life.

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And when you next sit down to table and eat, think about he many hands and the many many hours that food has travelled between the earth and your plate. The production of food is the oldest of arts by which man is ripening humanity - the most important one as well.

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