detailed explanation for each SIC code - Biffa

UK SIC 2007 – Explanatory Notes
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Section A
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
This section includes the exploitation of vegetable and animal natural resources, comprising the activities of growing crops,
raising and breeding animals, harvesting timber and other plants, animals or animal products from a farm or their natural
habitats.
01 Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities
This division includes two basic activities, namely the production of crop products and production of animal products, covering
also the forms of organic agriculture, the growing of genetically modified crops and the raising of genetically modified animals.
This division includes growing of crops in open fields as well in greenhouses.
This division also includes service activities incidental to agriculture, as well as hunting, trapping and related activities.
Group 01.5 (Mixed farming) breaks with the usual principles for identifying main activity. It accepts that many agricultural
holdings have reasonably balanced crop and animal production, and that it would be arbitrary to classify them in one category
or the other.
Agricultural activity excludes any subsequent processing of the agricultural products (classified under divisions 10 and 11
(Manufacture of food products and beverages) and division 12 (Manufacture of tobacco products)), beyond that needed to
prepare them for the primary markets. The preparation of products for the primary markets is included here.
The division excludes field construction (e.g. agricultural land terracing, drainage, preparing rice paddies etc.) classified in
section F (Construction) and buyers and cooperative associations engaged in the marketing of farm products classified in
section G. Also excluded is landscape care and maintenance, which is classified in class 81.30.
01.1 Growing of non-perennial crops
This group includes the growing of non-perennial crops, i.e. plants that do not last for more than two growing seasons.
Included is the growing of these plants for the purpose of seed production.
01.11 Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
This class includes all forms of growing of cereals, leguminous crops and oil seeds in open fields. The growing of these crops is
often combined within agricultural units.
This class includes:
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growing of cereals such as:
■ wheat
■ grain maize
■ sorghum
■ barley
■ rye
■ oats
■ millets
■ other cereals n.e.c.
growing of leguminous crops such as:
■ beans
■ broad beans
■ chick peas
■ cow peas
■ lentils
■ lupines
■ peas
■ pigeon peas
■ other leguminous crops
growing of oil seeds such as:
■ soya beans
■ groundnuts
■ cottonseed
■ castor bean
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