SCIAN 111—Agriculture
Subsector · Sistema de Clasificación Industrial de América del Norte (2023)
Where 111 sits
Contains 5 narrower codes
Description
Economic units primarily engaged in activities related to the cultivation of plant species grown on land, properties, plots, yards, or other parts of dwellings, orchards, greenhouses, and other protected agricultural structures—using genetically modified, organic, or other types of crops—for the purpose of obtaining food for human and animal consumption, as well as supplying raw materials to industry and producing ornamental plants. This includes economic units that combine agricultural activities with animal husbandry when it is impossible to determine the primary activity; economic units that combine agricultural activities with forestry when it is impossible to determine the primary activity; and economic units that combine agricultural activities, animal husbandry, and forestry when it is impossible to determine the primary activity. Economic units that carry out the planting, cultivation, and processing of agricultural products in an integrated manner are also classified in this subsector.
What 111 includes
- This includes hydroponic crops; the cultivation of plants for obtaining textile fibers; the collection of maple sap; the collection of gums, resins and other forest products in plantations or those who carry out some agricultural work for this purpose, and the production of improved seeds.
Cross-references for 111
- Establishments primarily engaged in the exploitation of animals combined with forestry when it is impossible to determine which is the main activity; to plant aquaculture (112, Breeding and exploitation of animals); to the collection of gums, resins and other forest products when no prior agricultural work is carried out for this purpose; to the collection of wild fruits and medicinal plants; to the planting, reforestation and conservation of timber species with production cycles greater than 10 years; to the cultivation of forest species in nurseries for afforestation and reforestation tasks (113, Forestry exploitation); to the processing of rice, coffee, tea, cocoa (311, Food industry); to the processing of tobacco; to the production of pulque (312, Beverage and tobacco industry), and the services of installation and maintenance of green areas inside and outside buildings (561, Business support services).