Questions tagged [agriculture]
Pertaining to the cultivation of crops and other plants or the technologies which relate to this field. Agriculture can encompass plant biology and plant genetics in certain cases as well.
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Would a species with 3 sexes be more adept at warfare and hard labor compared to humans? [closed]
For my fantasy story, I was trying to conceive of a three-gendered species for more uniqueness. I finally thought up an idea that might make biological sense. For mammals, the male sex has the sperm ...
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Would moving the equator to the Tropic of Cancer increase Earth's arable land?
In real life, the majority of Earth's land is in the Northern Hemisphere. The vast majority of people also live in the Northern Hemisphere. Essentially every important country (economics-wise and ...
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minimum atmospheric nitrogen for nitrogen fixation?
what is the minimum partial pressure of atmospheric nitrogen for nitrogen fixing bacteria to actually convert nitrogen into usable forms like ammonia? currently writing history for life within a 120 ...
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How to turn a desert into a fertile farmland with engineering?
There is, to the south of a prominent empire, a load of deserts with rocky, sandy soil. It's by the ocean and desalination comes easy to said empire due to several magical appliances they have. You ...
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Why raise livestock only in newer planetary settlements?
A future human civilization has the basic ability to terraform planets. This are modifications to the surface, biosphere, and atmosphere of the planet; no changes are made to a planet's orbit. ...
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How would a considerably advanced civilization do agriculture?
In my canon, a scientifically advanced civilization exists, defined primarily by their arcology habitats that can house millions of people in a single colossal building. These arcologies are ...
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Soil Types Sanity Check
I'm in the process of making a strategy game. I am using the FAO soil classification system for handling soils; the soil in a given tile has four characteristics:
production limit (how much food you ...
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Feasibility of cold-blooded Livestock
The research I have done recently (searching through Wikipedia) has yielded that generally cold-blooded animals (Ectotherms) are able to survive on less food that their warm-blooded counterparts, and ...
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Growth rate of super moss
Following an answer to aprevious question I posted, this world does is filled with moss and lichen fields that make other plant growth (and crop cultivation) impossible.
But after researching mosses ...
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How to make animal husbandry the only agriculture possible
This world is inhabited by carnivorous humans, how they came to be remains a mystery. The geography is typical of a post-glacial world (fjords, lots of lakes, valley steppes, all that good stuff) and ...
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Designing the best Meat livestock [closed]
I have been wondering what would be the best animal to produce meat, excluding insects and artificial meat.
The following questions are meant to provide ideas:
Would it be better for it to be an ...
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Labour-Intensive staple crop
I am trying to design a staple crop (preferably grain or tuber, but can be anything if necessary) that is very productive, capable of sustaining great population densities, but is also very labour ...
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Could medieval agriculture develop without soil?
In a water-world where the only "land" are the floating, rotting corpses of titans, how would a medieval civilization develop agriculture?
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What coordinates on Earth would provide the most arable land for a large island?
For my Alternate history story, I want a new ethnic group with their own landmass. Said landmass is a perfectly circular island the size of Egypt (area of 1 million square kilometers). This island ...
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Medieval Europe without animals [closed]
I'm working on a setting that in some ways looks like medieval Europe without domestic, or in general agriculturally significant, animals, and I'm trying to figure out what the implications would be.
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