MIGRATION OF SUGARCANE HARVESTERS

1.1 Introduction: Agriculture is one of the oldest and most important occupations of man. It is generally understood to mean both the cultivation of plants and the raising of livestock. Hence, the origin of agriculture goes back to the beginning of domestication of plants and animals. Although man, plants and animals has always lived together and has remained inseparably interconnected with each other. Man started domestication of plants and animals. Several scholars of different disciplines especially from anthropology, archeology, biology, history, paleo-botany, genetics, ethnology, and other branches of physical sciences have made efforts to unravel this mystery but have not reached a common conclusion as yet. They hold different views regarding the time and space, origin of agriculture.