First Historical Events in Agriculture & Allied Sciences

📜 First Historical Events in Agriculture & Allied Sciences

S. No.	First Historical Event	Details / Year
1	First domesticated animal	Dog – 10,000 BC (Iraq)
2	Second domesticated animal	Sheep – 8700 BC (Iraq)
3	Third domesticated animal	Goat – 7700 BC (Iraq)
4	First cultivated crop	Wheat & Barley – 7500 BC (Middle East)
5	Cattle & pig domestication	6000 BC (Middle East)
6	Maize cultivation	4400 BC (Mexico)
7	Potato cultivation	3500 BC (South America)
8	Wheel invention	3400 BC
9	Bronze tools usage	3000 BC (Middle East)
10	Plough usage	2900 BC (Middle East)
11	Silkworm domestication	2700 BC (China)
12	Chickpea, sarson & cotton cultivation	2300 BC
13	Poultry, buffalo & elephant domestication	2300 BC (Indus Valley)
14	Rice cultivation in India	2200 BC
15	Finger millet cultivation	1800 BC (Karnataka)
16	Sorghum cultivation	1725 BC (Rajasthan)
17	Pulses cultivation (Green & Black gram)	1500 BC (Madhya Pradesh)
18	Barley & sugarcane cultivation	1500 BC (India)
19	Iron plough usage	1000–1600 BC
20	Introduction of New World crops in India	16th Century (Portuguese)
21	Urea first separated from urine	H. M. Rouelle (1773)
22	Urea first synthesized	F. Wöhler (1828)
23	First fertilizer manufactured in India	SSP (1906)
24	First nitrogenous fertilizer in India	Ammonium sulphate
25	First complex fertilizer in India	Ammonium phosphate sulphate
26	First SRNF	Urea formaldehyde
27	First fertilizer used	Calcium nitrate
28	Brown manuring initiated	Australia
29	Tractor introduced in India	1920
30	MB plough manufactured in India	1920
31	First tractor manufactured in India	Eicher (1960)
32	First viral disease identified	Tobacco leaf curl
33	First nematode disease	Anguina tritici in wheat
34	First bacterial disease	Fire blight of apple
35	First organophosphate compound	Parathion
36	First hormone	Secretin
37	First zero tillage country	USA
38	First crop genome decoded	Rice
39	First systemic fungicide	Carboxin
40	First organic fungicide	Dithiocarbamate
41	First contact herbicide	DNOC (1932)
42	First systemic herbicide	2,4-D (1942)
43	First bioherbicide	DeVine (1981)
44	First commercial bio-insecticide	Sporeine
45	First transgenic crop	Tobacco / Tomato (1983)
46	First GM crop in India	Bt Cotton
47	First World Food Prize laureate	Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
48	First Nobel laureate related to agriculture	Dr. Norman E. Borlaug (Peace)
49	First Indian DG of ICAR	Dr. B. P. Pal
50	First President of ICAR	M. Habibullah
51	First Agriculture Minister of India	Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
52	First Indian Director of IARI	B. Vishwanath
53	First entomologist	Nionelde Nicevelli
54	Second entomologist	H. M. Lefroy
55	First Irrigation Commission	1901
56	Second Irrigation Commission	1969 / 1972
57	First agricultural magazine	Indian Farming (1940), ICAR
58	First agricultural university	GBPUAT, Pantnagar (1960)
59	First KVK	Puducherry (1974)
60	First AICRP	Maize (1957)
61	India’s first satellite	Aryabhata (1975)
62	First Indian Remote Sensing Satellite	IRS-1A (1988)
63	Colour television introduced in India	1982
64	First cotton mill in India	Bombay – 1854