maataloudellinen

Maataloudellinen is a Finnish adjective meaning agricultural or pertaining to agriculture. It is formed from maatalous, the word for agriculture or farming, plus the adjectival suffix -ellinen, and is used in formal or technical language to describe things connected with farming and the rural economy.

In use, maataloudellinen commonly appears in policy documents, economic analyses, statistics, and academic writing. It can modify nouns to indicate an agricultural context, for example maataloudellinen ala (the agricultural sector), maataloudelliset tilastot (agricultural statistics), maataloudellinen kehitys (agricultural development), and maataloudellinen politiikka (agricultural policy). The term is typically employed when the topic concerns agriculture as an economic or policy area rather than general rural life.

Etymology and related terms: the word is derived from maatalous and shares semantic space with other farm-related terms such as maanviljelys (cultivation) and maatalouspolitiikka (agriculture policy). It is distinct from more everyday or rural-focused descriptors and tends to appear in technical, administrative, or scholarly contexts.

See also: Maatalous, maanviljelys, maatalouspolitiikka, maataloustiede. The English equivalents are usually agricultural or agriculture-related, depending on the context.