Timeline of agriculture and food technology

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Timeline of agriculture and food technology

12000 BC - Natufians in the Levant begin harvesting wild grasses.
9800 BC - Earliest evidence for domestic wheat at PPNA sites in the Levant.
8500 BC - PPNB sites across the Fertile Crescent growing domestic wheat, barley, chickpeas, peas, beans, flax and bitter vetch. Sheep and goat domesticated.
7000 BC - Cultivation of wheat, sesame, barley, and eggplant in Mehrgarh (India/Pakistan).
7000 BC - Domestication of cattle and chicken in Mehrgarh, Indian Subcontinent.
6800 BC - Rice domesticated in southeast Asia.
6500 BC - Evidence of cattle domestication in Turkey. Some sources say this happened earlier in other parts of the world
6000 BC - Granary built in Mehrgarh for storage of excess food.
4000 BC - In Mehrgarh, the domestication of numerous crops, including peas, sesame seeds, dates, and cotton, as well as a wide range of domestic animals, including the water buffalo, an animal that remains essential to intensive agricultural production throughout Asia today.
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
3000 BC - Turmeric, cardamom, pepper and mustard are harvested in the Indus Valley Civilization (India/Pakistan).
3000 BC - Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit juices is in practice.
500 BC - Sugar produced in India
500 BC - The moldboard iron plough is invented in China
500 BC - Row cultivation of crops using intensive hoeing to weed and conserve moisture practised in China
300 BC - Efficient trace harness for plowing invented in China
200 BC - Efficient collar harness for plowing invented in China
100 BC - Rotary winnowing fan invented in China
100 BC - The multi-tube seed drill is invented in China
AD 200 - The fishing reel invented in China
600 - The distillation of alcohol in China
850 - Use of coffee is known in Arabia
1809 - French confectioner Nicolas François Appert invents canning
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
1895 - Refrigeration for domestic and commercial food preservation introduced in the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively
1944 - Green Revolution begins in Mexico
2000 - Genetically modified plants cultivated around the world.
2005 - Lasers used to replace stickers by writing on food to "track and trace" and identify individual pieces of fresh fruit. [1]