Introduction to Agriculture

Question 1

What is VISION?

Answer 1

A globally competitive
University producing graduates
In pursuit of higher economic welfare
Of the people and the community
Through inclusion and cooperation
From the stakeholders.

Question 2

What is MISSION ?

Answer 2

Provide technical and professional training,
Advanced instruction in literature, arts, philosophy,
The sciences and promotion
Of innovation, scientific and
Technological researches.

Question 3

What is GOAL?

Answer 3

The UEP college of Agriculture, fisheries, and Natural resources (UEP-CAFNR)
aims to contribute
To the improvement of the
Quality of life of the people
In the communities by producing graduates,
Generating and disseminating
Scientific knowledge and skills
Needed to practice environmentally-sound
And sustainable technologies
In agriculture, fisheries, and other natural resources.

Question 4

Agriculture defined

Answer 4

means cultivation and tillage
of the soil of a field in order to prepare a suitable seedbed,
eliminate weed growth
and improve the physical condition of the soil.

Question 5

Modern agriculture defined as?

Answer 5

Modern agriculture covers all activities
essential to food, feed, fiber production,
and fuel including technique for raising
and processing livestock
and increasingly widening areas of human effort and practices to ensure survival and sustainable development.

Question 6

What is agriculture?

Answer 6

Agriculture is the production of food, feed, fiber and fuel and other goods by systematic raising of plants
and animals. He encompasses farming,
tending of orchards and vineyards and rauching.

Question 7

Webster Dictionary defined

Answer 7

• Agriculture is the Art and Science of cultivating the soil planting of crops and raising of animals for food, feed, fiber and other uses.

Question 8

Philippine House of Representative 1997 defined

Answer 8

• Refer to the art science, and business of cultivating the soil, planting of crops, growing of fruits trees, management of forest, raising or catching of livestock, poultry or fish. Including the harvest and post- harvest handling of such products, and other activities performed by persons whether natural or juridical in conjunction in with such operations.

Question 9

Commission on Higher Education (CHED) defined

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Answer 9

Agriculture is the Art, science, ethics and entrepreneurial business in the production processing and marketing Utilized as food, fiber, recreation, biomedicine, industrial and other purposes within the context of integrated and sustainable agricultural resource system.