Recent Articles
Timeline of agriculture and food technology
Timeline
of
agriculture
and
food
technology
6500 BC
- Evidence of
cattle
domestication
in
Turkey
. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world
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
2000 BC
- Evidence of the domestication of
chickens
around
India
. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world.
1800 BC
-
Fermentation
of dough,
grain
, and
fruit
juices is discovered.
600
- The moldboard
plough
is invented in
eastern Europe
850
- Use of
coffee
is known in
Arabia
1300
- Arnau de Villanova develops
alcohol
distillation
1701
-
Jethro Tull
invents
seed drill
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
1944
-
Green revolution
begins in
Mexico