Agriculture

From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference.

Agriculture, or husbandry is the art, science or practice of producing food, feed, fiber and many other desired goods by the systematic raising of plants (from seeds to make beans and vegetables) and animals; commonly referred to as farming. In actual usage, agriculture denotes a broad array of activities essential to food and material production, including all techniques for raising and processing livestock no less than those essential to crop planting and harvesting.

Contents 1 Agricultural management 2 Agricultural planets and planetary regions 3 Agricultural colonies 4 Farming occupations 5 Agricultural products 6 Apocrypha 7 External link

[edit] Agricultural management

Many planetary governments have people or departments dedicated solely to agriculture:

• The government of Andor has an Agricultural Ministry. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")

• Nilz Baris is the Federation's Undersecretary for Agriculture. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")

• Arne Darvin was an assistant to Nilz Baris, the Federation Undersecretary for Agriculture. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")

• The planet Balancar had an Agricultural Consortium. (DS9: "The Magnificent Ferengi")

• The Bajoran Provisional Government has a Agricultural Ministry. (DS9: "Shakaar")

• Kukulkan was an ancient being that visited Earth in the distant past and taught humans new agricultural techniques. (TAS: "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth")

[edit] Agricultural planets and planetary regions

Certain planets and regions of planets are better suited for agriculture than others:

• The Ketha Province on the planet Qo'noS is an impoverished area dominated by agricultural usage. (DS9: "Once More Unto the Breach")

• The Dahkur Province is a region on Bajor dominated by agricultural use. (DS9: "Shakaar")

• The Rakantha Province is a region on Bajor that once had very productive agricultural lands. (DS9: "Shakaar")

• The Brunali are an agricultural species whose homeworld is in the Delta Quadrant. (VOY: "Collective")

• The planet Camor V has one agricultural area on the Southern continent. (TNG: "Bloodlines")

[edit] Agricultural colonies

Colonies are generally — although not always — civilian outposts established for agricultural or commercial purposes. The following colonies have been mentioned specifically as having an agricultural purpose:

• The Bajoran colony of New Bajor had an extensive irrigation system ostensibly for farming. (DS9: "Crossover")

• The colony on Cygnia Minor experienced a severe food shortage in 2266. (TOS: "The Conscience of the King")

• The Cerberus colony experienced a crop failure in 2260. (TAS: "The Survivor")

• Coltar IV is the location of a farming colony in 2364. (TNG: "We'll Always Have Paris")

• Gault is a colony that is widely regarded as a "Farm-world". (TNG: "Heart of Glory")

• The Omicron colony was an agricultural colony on planet Omicron Ceti III. (TOS: "This Side of Paradise")

• Beta XII-A is a planet with a human agricultural colony of 100 persons. (TOS: "Day of the Dove")

[edit] Farming occupations

• farmer
• gardener

[edit] Agricultural products

• Animals
  • Cow
  • Deer
  • Pig
  • Sheep
• Beans
  • Cocoa bean
  • Coffee bean
  • Green bean
  • Katterpod bean
  • Lokar bean
• Grains/Wheats
  • Bajoran wheat
  • Quadrotriticale
  • Quintotriticale
  • Regrean wheat
  • Triticale
• Plants/Vegetables
  • Bantan
  • Corn
  • Gespar
  • Maaza stalk
  • Squill
  • Tartoc
• Seeds
  • Rulot seed

[edit] Apocrypha

• In the non-canon novel Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 1, Keiko O'Brien oversees the planet Cardassia's agricultural renewal in late 2376.

[edit] External link

• Agriculture at Wikipedia