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Organic agriculture
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Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs.
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Agriculture
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The purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber.
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Primary economic activity
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Economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment-----such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture.
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Secondary economic activity
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Economic activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector.
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Tertiary economic activity
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Economic activity associated with the provision of services-----such as transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs.
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Quaternary economic activity
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Service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance, and legal services.
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Quinary economic activity
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Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge of technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management.
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Plant domestication
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Genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention.
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Root crop
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Crop that is reproduced by cultivating the roots of or the cuttings from the plants.
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Seed crop
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Crop that is reproduced by cultivating the seeds of the plants.
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