What's the difference between agriculture and horticulture?
Horticulture
The industry and science of plant cultivation including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings.
Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic engineering, plant biochemistry, and plant physiology. The work involves fruits, berries, nuts, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs, and turf. Horticulturists work to improve crop yield, quality, nutritional value, and resistance to insects, diseases, and environmental stresses.
The word horticulture is modeled after agriculture, and comes from the Latin hortus 'garden' and cultūra 'cultivation', from cultus, the perfect passive participle of the verb colō 'I cultivate.
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science.
The word agriculture is the English adaptation of Latin agricultūra, from ager, 'a field' and cultūra, "cultivation" in the strict sense of "tillage of the soil". Thus, a literal reading of the word yields 'tillage of a field / of fields'.
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