• Viticulture or grape cultivation is a specialty of the Mediterranean region. Best quality wines in the world, with distinctive flavours, are produced from high quality grapes in various countries of this region.
• The inferior grapes are dried into raisins and currants. This region also produces olives and figs. The advantage of the Mediterranean agriculture is that more valuable crops, such as fruits and vegetables, are grown in winters, when there is a great demand in the European and North American markets.

The regions where farmers specialize in vegetables only, the farming is known as truck farming. The distance of truck farms from the market is governed by the distance that a truck can cover overnight, hence the name truck farming.