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.
Agriculture describes the practice of growing crops or raising animals. Someone who works as a farmer is in the agriculture industry. The Latin root of agriculture is agri, or field, plus cultura, cultivation.. Cultivating a piece of land, or planting and growing food plants on it, is largely what agriculture means. Raising animals for meat or milk also falls under the category of agriculture.