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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 04 Jan 2021

Industrial crops

Crops that are normally not sold directly for consumption because they need to be industrially processed prior to final use. Examples: Tobacco, hops, cotton, rape, turning rape, soya, linseed, flax, hemps, etc.

EU, 2009b, Regulation (EC) No 1200/2009 of 30 November 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1166/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on farm structure surveys and the survey on agricultural production methods, as regards livestock unit coefficients and definitions of the characteristics, OJ L329, 15.12.2009, pp. 1-28.

Source category: EU Legislation