01 Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities

This division includes two basic activities, namely the production of crop products and the production of animal products.

Mixed farming (group 015) breaks with the usual principles for identifying the main activity. It accepts that many agricultural units have a reasonably balanced production of crops and animals, and that it would be arbitrary to classify them in one category or the other.

This division includes the soilless cultivation of crops, such as using hydroponic and aquaponic methods.

IMPLEMENTATION RULE: In agriculture, one frequent situation where the breakdown of the value added presents difficulties is when, a unit manufactures a product from its own agricultural output. For example, when a unit produces grapes and manufactures wine from the own-produced grapes, or when it produces olives and manufactures oil from the own-produced olives. In these cases the most suitable proxy variable is the number of hours worked. Applying this variable to these vertically integrated activities would generally lead to the classification of the units under agriculture. In the same case for other agricultural products, units will be classified in agriculture by convention, in order to guarantee harmonised treatment.

This division also includes service activities incidental to agriculture, as well as hunting, trapping and related activities.

Agricultural activities exclude any subsequent processing of the agricultural products (classified under divisions 10, 11 and 12), beyond that needed to prepare them for the primary markets. The preparation of products for the primary markets is included here.

This division excludes field construction (for example, agricultural land terracing, drainage, preparing rice paddies) classified in section F and buyers and cooperative associations engaged in the marketing of farm products classified in section G. Also excluded are landscape service activities, which are classified in type 813000.