Important non-food crops include horticulture, floriculture and industrial crops. Horticulture and floriculture are practiced in the province. The cultivation and trade of flowers is a specialization in horticulture, specifically floriculture. Other exports include horticulture and floriculture products, beet sugar, sunflower oil, cork, and tobacco. A minority of Japanese Argentines also engaged in horticulture, floriculture and fishery. The major sources of employment are in the agriculture, dairy, sericulture, floriculture and tourism-related industries. Narcissi are also an important horticultural crop, and source of cut flowers (floriculture). Puna cropland supports floriculture, nurseries and macadamia nuts. The main industry is agriculture, especially floriculture. As distinguished from nursery crops, floriculture crops are generally herbaceous. Major local industries include agriculture (houseplants, floriculture, Christmas trees, pumpkins, artichokes), fishing, and tourism. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture. Trade depends on local agricultural products, especially floriculture and herbiculture. These communities primary economic activities are agriculture, floriculture and brick making. The Latacunga economy is dependent on agriculture, floriculture and commerce.