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Agriculture in Pelinai comprises a significant portion of the primary sector of the Pelinese economy, along with other industries such as fishing, aquaculture, forestry, and mining, and functions as a major driver of economic activity in rural areas of Pelinai. It encompasses activities including the cultivation of cereals, fruit plants & fruit trees, vegetables, nuts, and spices, as well as the raising of livestock for meat, eggs, milk, and other animal products. Cleared or majority-cleared land used for agriculture accounts for 25.1% of all land in Pelinai, with approximately 18.9 million acres of land under cultivation in 2024; most of this land area lies in various areas of humid subtropical climate with fertile soil and multiple rivers, resulting in a large proportion of heat- and moisture-tolerant crops such as corn, citrus fruits, tea, and upland cotton. A further 2.37 million acres of forest is also in agricultural use as forested pasture.

Pelinai is a significant global producer of corn, citrus fruit, green beans and butter beans, cinnamon, peppers, prunus fruit such as cherries, peaches, and apricots, pecans, walnuts, tea, cocoa beans, raspberries, squash and pumpkins, strawberries, sweet potatoes, and watermelons, and other produce, as well as broilers, pork, and eggs. It is also renowned as one of the world’s largest growers of roses for production of rose water, rose oil, and other products.

Intensive efforts to improve the productivity of agriculture in Pelinai have greatly increased crop yields and decreased labor intensiveness of farming in some areas, but difficult mountainous terrain and the need for hand-picking of certain important crops like strawberries has somewhat limited the impact of traditional agricultural mechanization. Newer innovations such as genetically modified crops have also seen growing usage alongside conventional pesticides and other control measures to further improve yields and limit the prevalence of plant pests such as phytophthora, the spread of which is often favored by the prevailing humidity and high temperatures of the Pelinese climate. (Full article...)