Agriculture means farming of crops or the rearing of animals, either for their own use or for commercial purposes. Rural area means a place away from the city, opposite of urban areas, with little buildings and most likely have a smaller population.
On the other hand, construction and manufacturing most likely is going to be common in urban area, as urban area is more likely to have more buildings being built and most of the products are made in the factories in urban areas. Therefore, the only activity that is almost practiced exclusively in rural area is agriculture. Urban areas don't have much space and well environment for agriculture activities.
Agriculture activities can be energy consuming as some may require different machines to help with farming processes such as harvesting or irrigation.
Much of the energy used by people in both rural and urban areas is used for the same thing. However, agriculture
<span>is practiced almost exclusively in rural areas, and can be energy intensive. </span>