Agriculture includes planting, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry and other industries. In these industries, it is divided into aquaculture, animal husbandry, crop cultivation, sericulture, medicinal materials cultivation, feed crops and green manure cultivation.

Agricultural planting techniques include open-air cultivation, greenhouse cultivation, soilless cultivation, facility agriculture, column cultivation, wall cultivation and so on. With the development of society, the level of agricultural technology in China has changed from extensive to intensive.

There are many kinds of agricultural production, such as subsistence agriculture, intensive agriculture, commodity agriculture, extensive agriculture, facility agriculture, urban agriculture, high-efficiency agriculture, green agriculture, contract agriculture, intensive agriculture, organic agriculture and so on.