CHAPTER 4 : GENETIC RESOURCES IN AGRICULTURE


CENTRE OF ORIGIN

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/13/481586649/a-map-of-where-your-food-originated-may-surprise-you

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/13/481586649/a-map-of-where-your-food-originated-may-surprise-you


Six independent centre of crop origin

  1. Mesoamerica
  2. Andes and South America (Peru, Chile, Brazil) 
  3. Southeast Asia
  4. China
  5. Africa
  6. Southwest Asia (Middle East: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Israel) 



LIVESTOCK & CENTRE OF ORIGIN



  • Beef Cattle Breed 
  • Dairy Cattle
  • Goat & Sheep
  • Poultry
  • Fish 

CATTLE 
 Cattle farming are for meat or milk, the reasons for raising cows are many. Cattle also can be used as work animals and a source of leather.



GOAT AND SHEEP

Both goats and sheep are the mostly raised and common farm animals. Both are smaller sized ruminant animals and provide milk, meat and wool. You can raise them for the purpose of producing milk, meat, wool or cleaning brush and fields of vegetation.


This are the new technology that used nowadays in goat and sheep farming:-



POULTRY

  • Poultry farming means ‘raising various types of domestic birds commercially for the purpose of meat, eggs and feather production’. 
  • The most common and widely raised poultry birds are chicken.
  •  About 5k million chickens are being raised every year as a source of food (both meat and eggs of chicken). 
  • The chickens which are raised for eggs are called layer chicken, and the chickens which are raised for their meat production are called broiler chickens.


AQUACULTURE

Nowadays, the demand for the seafood is high. So they need big quantity of fish to produce. After they make research and development. They have make a new technology for solve this problem.
Korea technology in aquaculture for growing seafood demand.

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