Specialty culture

In agriculture and its statistical analysis, special crops are those areas of plant production that are considered to be particularly labor and capital intensive. These include:

• Viticulture
• Fruit growing
• hop
• Fine vegetables
• vegetables
• Tobacco growing
• Cultivation of spices
• Medicinal plants
• Flower crops
  • Rose growing
• Nurseries outside of closed forest areas

The delimitation of the term is not clear, depending on the source, for example, vegetable growing is assigned completely, only partially or not at all to special crops. Other definitions use, for example, the exclusion procedure: According to this, special crops are all crops that do not belong to root crops , cereals or fodder crops . In addition, there are regional deviations that are determined by the respective chambers of agriculture .

However, specialty crops have some common features:

• They are costly and labor intensive.
• Their market orientation and dependency is greater than, for example, in grain cultivation, which is why revenues and risks are higher.
• The cultivation areas and farms are mostly fragmented.
• You need certain climatic conditions.

See also

• Permanent culture
• Crop plant

Web links

Wiktionary: Special culture  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Anja Heiderich (stud.): Special crops in the area around Hamburg from a location-analytical point of view ( Memento from February 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Baden-Württemberg - land of specialty crops