The scope of agricultural commodities and fishery is highly are manifold, including: commodity fruits, vegetables, tubers, legumes, cereals, spices, livestock: meat (beef and chicken), eggs, milk, results plantation (tea, coffee, cocoa, rubber, oil palm) and fishery products are: fish, shrimp, mussels, squid, seaweed, molluscs and other fishery products. Agricultural and fishery products are indispensable man to make ends meet.
The existing commodities consumed in a fresh state, others that require further processing. You would often consume fruits such as oranges, bananas, watermelon, mango and so on. The fruits are usually we consume in fresh condition, has not been through a treatment process. On the other hand you must also never consume these kinds of processed products such as candied mango, dodol fruit, fish / salted eggs, meatballs, sausages and sebagianya.
Figure 8. Results of freshwater and marine fisheries (various types of fish, squid, clams, crabs, shrimp, seaweed, etc.
Unlike the fruits mentioned previously consumed in a fresh state, these products had passed through the treatment process. Both are consumed fresh or already passed through the processing, of course, we want quality or materials that we consume is a viable material or of good quality. We do not want to consume fresh or processed foods that have been damaged / rotten / defects that can harm our health.
For that we need a knowledge of the characteristics of various commodities, so that by knowing the characteristics we can handle and process well. After studying the material, the more you understand not about the scope of agricultural commodities and fishery?