Agriculture
Industry Overview
Agriculture is the comprehensive product of crop plants for human food and animal feed and livestock products – the entire range of technologies associated with the production of useful products from plants and animals, including soil cultivation, crop and livestock management, and the activities of processing and marketing. The Agribusiness practice area includes all technologies that mesh in the total inputs and outputs of the farming sector and encompasses the whole range of economic activities involved in manufacturing and distributing the industrial inputs used in farming; the processing of these materials into finished products; and the provision of products at a time and place demanded by consumers. Agricultural law, or agrilaw, deals with law on agricultural infrastructure, seed, water, fertilizer, pesticide as well as agriculture finance, labor and marketing; agricultural insurance; farming rights; land tenure and tenancy system. With implementation of modern technologies, issues including credit, intellectual property, trade and commerce related to agricultural products are dealt within this sphere of the law.