A kilometer is a metric unit of measurement that is used to measure distance. One kilometer is 1,000 meters. It is equal to .62 miles.
April 29, 2010 â¢ Agriculture â¢ by EconomyWatch. Industrial agriculture is defined as a modern form of capital intensive farming in which the machinery and purchased are substituted for the labor of human beings and animals.
If the operative definition of agriculture includes large scale intensive cultivation of land, i.e., mono-cropping, organised irrigation, and use of a specialized labor force, the title inventors of agriculture would fall to the Sumerians, starting around 5,500 B.C.E.