agricultural community

Rural crop settlement

An agricultural community is a settlement whose economy and social life center on farming.

The term often evokes small-town or rural areas where residents share ties to the land—raising crops, tending livestock, or supporting those who do.

The drought devastated agricultural communities across the region.

It can also describe intentional communities organized around collective farming.

Related

crop rotation · harvest festivals · market day · oral histories · rural traditions · rural life · local folklore · local governance · farmers' markets · planting season · growing season · smallholders · farm cooperatives · family farm · subsistence farming · biodiversity · organic farming · county

Categories
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economic base/primary industry

agricultural communityindustrial city

Urban area centered on manufacturing

factory town · mining town · mill town · industrial center · commercial center

land use and population density

agricultural communityurban center

Populated municipal area

city · metropolis · urban area · metropolitan area · megacity

technological/developmental stage

agricultural communityindustrial society

Civilization centered on manufacturing

high-tech corridor · Silicon Valley · digital economy · knowledge economy · modern city

Family

community, agriculture

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