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It is so strange that people donn't give any interest in the hitory of the most important thing--the food.So funny.Ksyrie 06:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 what a mess 2 Wow, major improvements 3 Origins of agriculture----> new and separate article? 4 "Muslim agriculture" could be condensed? Roman expanded? 5 Genetic Engineering in Crops

[edit] what a mess

This article is basic to an encyclopedia and... what's here presently is just... maybe a few fragments of it should be kept... you know?? JDG 05:05, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I would like to take responsibility of improving this article, but its way too broad a topic for one person to do but I'll try. --24.247.126.44 01:27, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

To the above user; It is appreciated that you would like to improve this article, but I feel that the ancient history section was fairly comprehensive, if not cohesive, and the article structure is fairly solid. To that end, adding the sumerian information is helpful, but deleting entire paragraphs without either discussion here or a well-justified reason seems excessive. wgh 06:06, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I think 24.etc was reading the above criticisms from September and earlier and concluded they applied to the article as it stood on 7 November. But by 7 November the article had been greatly improved. JDG 02:15, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

What do you mean by 500,000 year history of modern humans? Most people thinkg homo sapiens evolved 200 000 - 100 000 years ago. Do you mean something else? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.224.228.86 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 24 March 2007.

[edit] Wow, major improvements

This article has drastically changed since I've last seen it (and added the section on China). Cheers and kudos to the editors.--PericlesofAthens 18:09, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

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I find it contradictory to write in the 1st section that the practice of agriculture _first began_ around 8000 BC in the Middle East, but slightly after to say that in China rice was domesticated by 10000 BC. Kostoraiskaaja 11:18, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Agree on that. As far as my studietexts in Antropology tell me the date for China is wrong. Middle East was the first Agricultural center. Fabzgy 16:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

The dates are flipped for the Fertile Crescent and China. 10000 BCE for the Fertile Crescent and 8000 BCE for China. Whomever typed it up got the order right and the dates wrong.PatrickSJ 17:43, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origins of agriculture----> new and separate article?

Seems to me that so vital a topic as the origin of agriculture ought to have its own page. I'm stunned that it has not yet happened. How would folks feel if I took this section off and started a new article, then put a link to see main article: Origins of Agriculture ? --Smilo Don 00:21, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

NEvermind--found it: Neolithic Revolution. Will help to link in a sec. Sorry for the bother.--Smilo Don 00:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Muslim agriculture" could be condensed? Roman expanded?

Muslim (Islamic?) section seems a bit big relative to other sections. Perhaps useful just to have the salient points? Or if it really is sensible to proportion like that, perhaps an overview in the introduction which explains when and where the key deelopments were.

dp 23:32 29th October 2007

[edit] Genetic Engineering in Crops

I am unfamiliar with the current methods of genetic engineering in crops to improve yields, disease resistance, and quality, but shouldn't we have a section about it? The earliest form of genetic engineering in crops would be breeding selection followed by later techniques in gene manipulation for common crops such as corn, cotton, and wheat. PatrickSJ 18:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)