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Category: Food Production
The food industry is a vast, global network of various businesses that provides the majority of the world’s food. The word “food industries” refers to a set of industrial operations involving the production, distribution, manufacturing, converting, preparing, storage, transportation, certification, and packaging of foods. The food business has evolved into a highly varied industry, with production ranging from small, traditional, family-run operations that are labor-intensive to huge, capital-intensive, highly mechanized industrial processes. Many food sectors are nearly completely reliant on local agriculture, vegetables, and fishing. Finding a comprehensive approach to food production and distribution is difficult. Many of the above activities are overlapped in areas of inquiry such as grading, conservation, and storage. The majority of food provided for the food industry is derived from commodity crops grown using traditional agricultural methods. Agriculture is the practice of cultivating particular plants and rearing domesticated animals to produce food, feed goods, fiber, and other desirable products (livestock). On average, terrestrial agriculture produces 83 percent of the food consumed by humans. Aquaculture and fishing are two other food sources. Agriculture also includes scientists, engineers, and others who work to improve farming practices and implements. Agriculture accounts for between 14 and 28 percent of global greenhouse gas emission, making it one of the most significant contributors to global warming, thanks in part to traditional agricultural methods such as synthetic fertilizers and inefficient land management. Agriculture is the practice of cultivating particular plants and rearing domesticated animals to produce food, feed goods, fiber, and other desirable products (livestock). On average, terrestrial agriculture produces 83 percent of the food consumed by humans. Aquaculture and fishing are two other food sources. Agriculture also includes scientists, engineers, and others who work to improve farming practices and implements. Agriculture accounting for between 14 and 28 percent of global greenhouse gas emission, makes it one of the most significant contributors to global warming, thanks in part to traditional agricultural methods such as synthetic fertilizers and inefficient land management. In this section we will cover everything about food production from processing to food consumption and marketing.