Chris Slade wrote:
According to my  dictionary 'agriculture' is the art and practice of 
cultivating the land.   The beekeeper is
doing nothing to the land. It would be a pity if the beekeeper  were to lose 
his home apiary through the ignorance or dyslexia of  officialdom.

Nice try, but I suspect that officialdom will prefer a wider definition - 
such at that at dictionary.com:
'The science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and 
raising livestock; farming.'

Peter Edwards
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