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Definition of Primary Agriculture
Primary agriculture as defined by the United Nations includes specialized activities, on a fee or contract basis, mostly performed on the farm, including the following:
- Providing agricultural machinery with drivers and crew.
- Activities establishing a crop, promoting its growth or protecting it from disease and insects.
- Harvesting and activities related to harvesting such as preparation of the crop for primary markets, by cleaning, trimming, grading, drying, decorticating, retting, cooling or bulk packaging.
- Cotton ginning. Transplantation of rice in rice fields.
- Activities of farm labour contractors.
- Landscape planning and design in connection with planting, stocking, trimming, supervising, lawn and garden installation and maintenance and tree surgeons activities (for the care of ornamental trees and shrubs).
- Operation of irrigation systems for agricultural purposes.
- Animal boarding, care and breeding.
- Activities to promote propagation, growth and output of animals and to obtain animal products.
- Activities such as artificial insemination, herd testing, droving, agistment, poultry caponizing, coop cleaning, dung gathering, etc. Also, sheep-dipping and shearing, egg-cleaning and grading, animal skinning and related activities.
- Activities carried on for special farm operators such as reptile farms or frog farms but excluding fish farms.
It specifically excludes the provision of feed lot services, service activities to promote commercial hunting and trapping, preparation of vegetable fibres for textile use, marketing activities of commission merchants and co-operative associations, activities of agronomists and agricultural economists, landscape architecture and veterinary activities.
In addition to the commodity sectors and the type of work to be performed by the seasonal agricultural worker, the location of work is also examined. In order for an occupation to be considered primary agriculture, the work must be conducted within the boundaries of a farm.
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