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Agriculture is a collection of activities which converts mainly biological inputs into food and raw materials. The activities can be classified into a set of sequential processes such as input manufacturing and distribution, farming, food processing, wholesaling and retailing. Within each of these sectors managerial decisions are formulated and implemented in response to changes in other sectors in the sequence and also to changes which take place in the rest of society. The integration of the activity in all the components of agriculture gives rise to a set of products and services at each stage in a vertical production and marketing chain which are passed on, after modification, until they reach the consumer and disappear.1
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Dalton, G.E. (1982). Agricultural Systems. In: Managing Agricultural Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7355-8_2
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