Timeline of agriculture and food technology
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Timeline of agriculture and food technology
- 12000 BC - Natufians in the Levant begin cultivating wild grasses.
- 9800 BC - Earliest evidence for domestic wheat at PPNA sites in the Levant.
- 8500 BC - PPNB sites across the Fertile Crescent growing domestic wheat, barley, chickpeas, peas, beans, flax and bitter vetch. Sheep and goat domesticated.
- 7000 BC - Cultivation of sesame, barley, and eggplant in Mehrgarh (India/Pakistan).
- 7000 BC - Domestication of cattle and chicken in Mehrgarh.
- 6800 BC - Rice domesticated in southeast Asia.
- 6500 BC - Evidence of cattle domestication in Turkey. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world
- 6000 BC - Granary built in Mehrgarh for storage of excess food.
- 4000 BC - In Mehrgarh, the domestication of numerous crops, including peas, sesame seeds, dates, and cotton, as well as a wide range of domestic animals, including the water buffalo, an animal that remains essential to intensive agricultural production throughout Asia today.
- 4000 BC - Egyptians discover how to make bread using yeast
- 4000 BC - Evidence for rice domestication in the Korat plateau area of northwestern Thailand
- 3500 BC - First agriculture in the Americas, around Central Amazonia or Ecuador
- 3000 BC - Turmeric, cardamom, pepper and mustard are harvested in the Indus Valley Civilization (India/Pakistan).
- 3000 BC - Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit juices is in practice.
- 500 BC - Sugar produced in India
- 500 BC - The moldboard iron plough is invented in China
- 500 BC - Row cultivation of crops using intensive hoeing to weed and conserve moisture practised in China
- 300 BC - Efficient trace harness for plowing invented in China
- 200 BC - Efficient collar harness for plowing invented in China
- 100 BC - Rotary winnowing fan invented in China
- 100 BC - The multi-tube seed drill is invented in China
- 200 - The fishing reel invented in China
- 600 - The distillation of alcohol in China
- 850 - Use of coffee is known in Arabia
- 1837 - John Deere invents steel plough
- 1863 - International "Corn Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different countries
- 1866 - Gregor Mendel publishes his paper describing Mendelian inheritance
- 1871 - Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization
- 1895 - Refrigeration for domestic and commercial food preservation introduced in the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively
- 1944 - Green Revolution begins in Mexico
- 2000 - Genetically modified plants cultivized around the world.
- 2005 - Lasers used to replace stickers by writing on food to "track and trace" and identify individual pieces of fresh fruit. [link]
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