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organic agriculture - the production of crops without the use of synthetic or industrially produced pesticides and fertilizers agriculture - the deliberate tending of crops and livestock to produce food, feed, and fiber primary economic activity - economy activity concerned with the direct extraction if natural resources from the environment -- such as mining, fishing, lumbering, and especially agriculture secondary economic activity - economy activity involving the processing of raw materials and their transformation into finished industrial products; the manufacturing sector tertiary economic activity - economic activity associated with the provision of services -- such as transportation, banking, retailing, education, and routine office-based jobs quaternary economic activity - service sector industries concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital. Examples include finance, administration, insurance, and legal services quinary economic activity - service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. Example include scientific research and high-level management plant domestication - genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention root crops - crops that are reproduced by cultivating either the roots or cutting from the plants seed crops - plants that are reproduced by cultivating seedsFirst Agriculture Revolution - Dating back to 8,000-14,000 years ago, this revolution achieved plant and animal domestication as well as from root crops to seed crops. It was also the shift from nomadic settlements to permanent settlements and from hunter gatherer societies to agricultural societies