Chinese agriculture originated in the early part of what era around how many years ago?

Chinese agriculture occurred during the Neolithic Age, eight or nine thousand years ago.

Chinese agriculture took place in the Neolithic Age. China's Yellow River and Yangtze River Basin is one of the world's agricultural origins. During its eight or nine thousand years of development, Chinese agriculture has had many world-leading inventions, but it has also experienced a long period of stagnation.

The production structure of Chinese agriculture includes planting, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and sideline industries; however, planting has been the mainstay for thousands of years. Grain production was especially dominant due to the large population and relatively small area of arable land.

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Basic Characteristics:

1) Holistic.

They are interconnected and constrained to form a unified whole. Such as under certain water and heat conditions, the formation of a certain soil and vegetation, as well as the animal and microbial communities that are compatible with this.

② Geographical.

Due to the relative position of the earth and the sun and its movement characteristics, and due to the state of the distribution of land and sea on the earth's surface and the geological landscape changes, the water and heat conditions vary in various regions of the earth.

3) Renewability.

Unlike mineral resources that tend to diminish with exploitation, agricultural natural resources are renewable and recyclable. Mainly in the soil fertility of the cyclic recovery, the organisms of the continuous death and reproduction, the cycle of water replenishment, seasonal changes in climatic conditions.

④ Cultivability.

While human beings cannot create natural resources, they can take various measures to change its form and nature to a certain extent. For example, through the soil cultivation, improve water conservancy, cultivate excellent biological varieties, and so on, to further develop the production potential of natural resources.

⑤ The finiteness of quantity and the infinity of potential.

The area of land on Earth, the amount of water, the amount of solar radiation reaching the ground, etc., in a certain area, a certain time have a certain amount of limitations.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chinese Agriculture