A set of activities which should be applied in order to make agricultural production system socially viable, economically profitable and efficient, and protective in terms of human health and animal health, boosting animal welfare as well as sensitive to the environment. Good Agricultural Practices cover the process from pre-sowing to production of the processed final product.
Entire good agricultural practices include all production and marketing steps from the soil to the table. It is a chain of applications free of residues hazardous to the human health, not causing environmental pollution, where the there are no adverse effects on the health of people dealing with this work as well as the welfare and health of other creatures during the production.