What are agricultural products and agricultural and sideline products

Agricultural products generally refer to unprocessed products harvested through agricultural work, not limited to crops, but also animal and plant products. Agricultural and sideline products are products that flow to the market after processing, and are production side businesses that exist based on agricultural products. This is a general interpretation of agricultural products and agricultural by-products, but it is only one aspect.

From an economic point of view, agricultural production in the past is to solve the problem of food and clothing,

after solving the problem of food and clothing, in order to meet the needs of higher quality of life, people began to take the initiative to create a more convenient lifestyle, in a certain sense, the development of agricultural and sideline products is a way of transition from small peasant economy to commodity economy.

In terms of the products themselves, agricultural products are food crops, agricultural and

sideline products are cash crops, and farmers trade them as commodities through the production of agricultural products that are processed and entered the market as commodities, and then feed back to farmers. The main body of agricultural products is the product itself, while agricultural and sideline products need to constantly adapt to changes in the market.

From an environmental point of view, agricultural products are natural choices, and agricultural and sideline products are man-made choices. Agricultural products are not controlled by human beings, they are only gifts from nature to the whole of mankind, and agricultural and sideline products are the products of human improvement to meet their own needs.

What agricultural products include

Agricultural products are items produced in agriculture; Primary agricultural products refer to crops, animal husbandry and fishery products in accordance with national regulations, and do not include all types of processed products.

1. Tobacco leaves

It is a product made of various tobacco leaves after processing, and due to different processing methods, it is divided into drying tobacco leaves, drying tobacco leaves and flue-cured tobacco leaves. Tobacco leaves refer to tobacco leaves that are dried in the open air using solar energy; Drying tobacco leaves refer to tobacco leaves that are naturally dried in the drying room; Flue-cured tobacco leaves (except re-cured tobacco leaves) refer to tobacco leaves baked in the baking room.

2. Mao tea

It refers to fresh leaves and shoots (i.e. tea green) picked from tea plants, and first made by blow-drying, kneading, fermentation, drying and other processes.

3. Edible fungi

It refers to naturally grown and artificially cultivated edible fungi, including fresh goods, dry goods, and fresh and dry goods that agricultural producers use their own planted and picked products to continuously carry out simple preservation, drying and packaging.

4. Melons, fruits, vegetables

It refers to naturally grown and artificially cultivated melons, fruits and vegetables, including melons, dried fruits and pickled products that agricultural producers use their own planted and picked products for continuous and simple processing (except for preserves using melons, fruits and vegetables as raw materials).

5. Flowers, seedlings

It refers to flowers and seedlings that grow naturally and artificially cultivate and maintain a natural growth state.

6. Medicinal herbs

Refers to naturally grown and artificially cultivated medicinal herbs. It does not include processed products processed by Chinese medicinal materials or proprietary Chinese medicine manufacturers through cutting, stir-frying, baking, baking, smoking, steaming, packaging and other processes.

7. Grain and oil crops

It refers to wheat, rice (including

indica and yuan grain), soybeans, miscellaneous grains (including corn, mung beans, red beans, broad beans, peas, buckwheat, barley, yuan wheat, oats, sorghum, millet, rice kernels), fresh yam potato, dried yam fruit, peanut fruit, peanut kernel, sesame, rapeseed, cottonseed, sunflower seed, castor seed, palm seed, other seeds.