Agricultural Pesticides Business
The practice of agriculture is also known as "farming", while
scientists, inventors and others devoted to improving farming methods
and implements are also said to be engaged in agriculture.
Subsistence farming, who farms a small area with limited resource
inputs, and produces only enough food to meet the needs of his/her
family.
At the other end is commercial intensive agriculture, including industrial agriculture.
Such farming involves large fields and/or numbers of animals, large
resource inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, etc.), and a high level of
mechanization.
These operations generally attempt to maximize financial income from grain, produce, or livestock.
Modern agriculture extends well beyond the traditional production of food for humans and animal feeds.
Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers,
animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and
resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (