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  2. Founder crops - Wikipedia

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    In 1988, the Israeli botanist Daniel Zohary and the German botanist Maria Hopf formulated their founder crops hypothesis. They proposed that eight plant species were domesticated by early Neolithic farming communities in Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent) and went on to form the basis of agricultural economies across much of Eurasia, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North ...

  3. List of domesticated plants - Wikipedia

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    This map shows the sites of domestication for a number of crop plants. Places, where crops were initially domesticated, are called centers of origin. This is a list of plants that have been domesticated by humans. The list includes individual plant species identified by their common names as well as larger formal and informal botanical ...

  4. Trane - Wikipedia

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    Trane employs more than 29,000 people at 104 manufacturing locations in 28 countries, and ... Monterrey, Mexico – Products made include strip heaters, plant ...

  5. List of food origins - Wikipedia

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    The Neolithic founder crops (or primary domesticates) are the eight plant species that were domesticated by early Holocene (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region of southwest Asia, and which formed the basis of systematic agriculture in the Middle East, North Africa, India ...

  6. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    This migration event also saw the introduction of cultivated and domesticated food plants from Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, and New Guinea into the Pacific Islands as canoe plants. Contact with Sri Lanka and Southern India by Austronesian sailors also led to an exchange of food plants which later became the origin of the valuable spice trade.

  7. Royal Enfield - Wikipedia

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    The company operates manufacturing plants in Chennai, India. The first Royal Enfield motorcycle was built in 1901 by The Enfield Cycle Company of Redditch , Worcestershire , England, which was responsible for the design and original production of the Royal Enfield Bullet, the longest-lived motorcycle design in history. [ 4 ]

  8. Vauxhall Motors - Wikipedia

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    The plant currently produces the Vivaro light commercial van. [67] The Ellesmere Port plant currently employs around 1,880 staff and has a capacity of approximately 187,000 units. [12] [67] The plant site has a total area of 13.02 million square feet (1,209,366 square metres). [67] The plant currently produces the Astra and Astra Sports Tourer ...

  9. Iveco - Wikipedia

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    Its production plants are in Europe, China, Russia, Australia and Latin America and it has about 5,000 sales and service outlets in over 160 countries. The worldwide output of the company amounts to around 150,000 commercial vehicles with a turnover of about € 10 billion. [3] The company was spun off from CNH Industrial on 1 January 2022.