Editing Veneto (section)

===Agriculture===
[[File:Prosecco vitigni.jpg|thumb|Glera grapes on the vine in the [[Prosecco]] zone, pre-veraison]]
Though its importance has been decreasing for the past 20–30 years, agriculture continues to play a significant role in the regional economy. The [[agriculture|agricultural sector]] of Veneto is among the most productive in Italy. However, it is still characterised by an intensive use of labour rather than capital, due to the specialisation in [[market gardening]], fruit-growing and vine-growing throughout the plain and the foothills, requiring very much handicraft. In the south and in the extreme east of the region, [[Cereal|grain crops]] are more common and land holdings are larger than in the rest of the region; mechanisation is more advanced here. The cattle stock, although declining, still represented 15% of the national stock.<ref name="regportraits1">{{cite web |url=http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itd3_eco.htm |title=Eurostat |publisher=Circa.europa.eu |access-date=2013-03-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526183748/http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itd3_eco.htm |archive-date=2013-05-26 }}</ref> [[Fishing]] is also still important in coastal areas.

The main agricultural products include [[maize]], [[pea|green peas]], vegetables, apples, cherries, [[sugar beet]]s, forage, tobacco, hemp. Moreover, Veneto is one of Italy's most important wine-growing areas, producing [[Venetian wine|wines]], such as [[Prosecco]], [[Valpolicella]], and [[Soave (wine)|Soave]]. Overall, Veneto produces more bottles of [[Denominazione di origine controllata|DOC wine]] than any other area in Italy. The [[Amarone della Valpolicella]], a wine from the hills around Verona, is made with high-selected grapes and is among the more expensive red wines in the world.