answers.input_text: short
answers.span_text: eleven separate regions of the Old and New World
questions: where did the cultivation of agriculture first arise
name: History of agriculture
contexts: The history of agriculture records the domestication of plants and animals and the development and dissemination of techniques for raising them productively . Agriculture began independently in different parts of the globe , and included a diverse range of taxa . At least eleven separate regions of the Old and New World were involved as independent centers of origin .