Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

Zohary and Hopf note that it is not yet certain which wild strain of the genus Trigonella gave rise to the domesticated fenugreek but they believe it was brought into cultivation in the Near East.

As cultivation became more focused, many plant species became domesticated.

This period of cultivation is considered " pre-domestication ", but may have begun to develop plant species into the domesticated forms they are today.

Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals.

Dutch cuisine is shaped by the practice of fishing and farming, including the cultivation of the soil for raising crops and the raising of domesticated animals, and the history of the Netherlands.

Morphological studies of rice phytoliths from the Diaotonghuan archaeological site clearly show the transition from the collection of wild rice to the cultivation of domesticated rice.

The cultivation of rice in Korea and Japan during that time occurred on a small-scale, fields were impermanent plots, and evidence shows that in some cases domesticated and wild grains were planted together.

He held great concern for detail and philological accuracy in identification, use and cultivation of different types of medicinal herbs, such as in which months medicinal plants should be gathered, their exact ripening times, which parts should be used for therapy ; for domesticated herbs he wrote about planting times, fertilization, and other matters of horticulture.

Caigua is known from cultivation only, and its large fruit size as compared to closely related wild species suggests that the caigua is a fully domesticated crop.

By the mid-1960s, however, it was evident that in some areas of the United States prehistoric cultural groups with a clearly Archaic cultural assemblage were making pottery without any evidence of the cultivation of domesticated crops.

Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals ( livestock ).

Some of the earliest evidence of grape cultivation and livestock domestication is associated with the Bronze Age Ezero culture.

It is now one of two places in Poland with wine grape cultivation mainly for white wines ( the other being the wine growing region near the town of Warka in Masovia ).

His main hobby was grape cultivation, and he kept up with current affairs by subscribing to a host of newspapers.

Hoeilaart also sometimes called " The Glass Village " because of the greenhouse grape cultivation that once took place.

He spent much of his time studying literature, scientific works, grape cultivation, and the raising of silkworms.

The Canadian trend towards increased cultivation of Vitis vinifera ( European ) grape varieties in the 1990s expanded the palette of varieties available to be bitten by frost.

When Philippe the Bold outlawed the cultivation of Gamay in Burgundy, it pushed the grape south to the Beaujolais region.

It was during this period that grape cultivation moved from being just an aspect of local consumption to an important component of local economies and trade.

The economy, besides tourism, is based on agriculture, namely the cultivation of grape vines, olives and fruit, and fishing and fish processing.

The grape's high resistance to downy mildew encouraged its cultivation in the early 20th century in areas like Isère and Ardèche, although the relative low quality of the resulting wine caused the grape to fall out of favor with local wine authorities.

In July 1395, the Duke of Burgundy Philippe the Bold outlawed the cultivation of the grape, referring to it as the " disloyal Gaamez " that in spite of its ability to grow in abundance was full of " very great and horrible harshness ", due in part to the variety's occupation of land that could be used for the more " elegant " Pinot Noir.

Settlement archeological work was done quickly and thus did not find definitive evidence of grape cultivation on the island during this period.

However, grape cultivation was common on neighboring islands and the nearby mainland during this time.

The number of farmers involved in grape cultivation has gone up from 210 to 397 in the recent years, though the farm area has gone down from 1800 hectares to 1200 hectares.

The probable origin of the local place name came from the historical cultivation of vineyards with a caste of grape called Camarate.

A single grape pip and a leaf fragment is evidence of vine cultivation and the occupants seem to have traded with sites further to the south west.

Michurin was the one to start cultivation of his hybrids of grape, apricot, sweet cherry and other southern plants in the northern climates.

While primarily a white wine country, red wine production surged in the 1990s and early 2000s, primarily fuelled by domestic demand, and the proportion of the German vineyards devoted to the cultivation of dark-skinned grape varieties has now stabilized at slightly more than a third of the total surface.

In Jancis Robinson ’ s " Guía de Uvas para Vinificación " ( 1996 ) Airén is cited as the most grown variety of grape in the world: with 423. 100 ha under cultivation, it exceeds Garnacha ( Grenache ) with 317. 500 ha, Mazuelo with 244. 330 ha, Ugni Blanc with 203. 400 ha, Merlot with 162. 200 ha and Cabernet Sauvignon with 146. 200 ha.

Cattle-breeding, grape cultivation and wine making were well-developed in Aghdznink.

* During the Middle-Ages, Draguignan was a small village whose people lived from olive and grape cultivation.

In Württemberg, Trollinger was crossed with the white grape Riesling to produce the cross Kerner in 1929 ( received varietal protection and was released for general cultivation in 1969 ).

The Catawba grape can still be found throughout the Midwest and Eastern United States, though its numbers are not very large due to the prevalence of more recent French-American hybrid varieties and increased plantings of Vitis vinifera in area suitable for its cultivation.

With the aid of immigrant German workers, the island was used for grape cultivation.

The island would have been mostly forest until the Neolithic people began crop cultivation.

It was another century before hop cultivation began in the present-day United States, in 1629.

Agricultural production expanded until the early 1960s, as additional land was brought under cultivation and some irrigation projects began to have an effect.

The Dutch began cultivation of coffee trees on Java ( part of the Dutch East Indies ) in the 17th century and it has been exported globally since.

It is estimated the cultivation of olive trees began more than 7000 years ago.

Tea cultivation only began in Taiwan in the mid-19th century.

The cultivation of European music in the Americas began in the 16th century soon after the arrival of the Spanish, and the conquest of Mexico.

The cultivation of sugar was a labour intensive process and the Portuguese began to import large numbers of slaves from the African mainland.

Sugar cane cultivation began in the 1640s, after its introduction in 1637 by Pieter Blower.

Ginger cultivation began in South Asia and has since spread to East Africa and the Caribbean.

Large-scale pineapple cultivation by U. S. companies began in the early 1900s on Hawaii.

Maui Pineapple Company began pineapple cultivation on the island of Maui in 1909.

In the Near East, in southern Mesopotamia in particular, cultivation of emmer wheat began to decline in the Early Bronze Age, from about 3000 BC, and barley became the standard cereal crop.

Tomatoes were still known as " love apples " when N. Piazza imported seeds from Italy, and with help from S. H. Stackhouse, began scientific cultivation of tomato plants.

The cultivation of flowers began circa 1880, first with roses in greenhouses.

Immediately after the period when the colonists were fighting for independence, or beginning with 1784 or 1785, several families leased land in Grafton from the patroon and began the cultivation of the land there.

Near him, and not much later, Jacob Fellows, Nicholas Fellows and Zachariah Fellows built homes and began the cultivation of the land on an extensive scale.

During John III's rule, after the initial colonization, Portuguese explorers intensified the search for brazilwood and began the cultivation of sugarcane, which was well suited to the climate of Brazil, especially around Recife and Bahía.

The southern swamps meanwhile changed radically from the 18th century when King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke moved the capital of Siam to Bangkok, and a process of canalisation and cultivation began, especially as Thailand began to export rice from 1855 onwards.

In a stable shifting cultivation system, the fallow is long enough for the natural vegetation to recover to the state that it was in before it was cleared, and for the soil to recover to the condition it was in before cropping began.

In 1946 two Dutch growers moved to the Union of South Africa and began cultivation there.

Hurd named the grass " hurd grass " but a farmer named Timothy Hanson began to promote cultivation of it as a hay about 1720, and the grass has been known by its present name since then.

Vitis vinifera cultivation and winemaking in China began during the Han Dynasty in the 2nd century with the importation of the species from Ta-Yuan.