Agriculture accounted for 4. 3 % of GDP in 2008 and along with the food industry occupied roughly 7. 7 % of the labor force.

Agriculture and industry have become less important to the economy, and services, especially tourism, accounted for over 72 percent of GDP.

Agriculture, for instance, accounted for about 25 % of GDP and employed 25 % of the total labor force.

Agriculture accounted for 4. 3 % of GDP in 2008 and along with the food industry occupied roughly 7. 7 % of the labor force.

Agriculture accounted for 85 % of total employment ( formal and informal ) for 2000.

Agriculture contributed 31. 5 percent of the GDP in 2009, while commerce and services accounted for 44. 9 percent.

Agriculture and forestry accounted for 14 percent of Bolivia ’ s gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 2003, down from 28 percent in 1986.

What was puzzling about the quality of Amex's Field Warehousing operation was that since De Angelis was theoretically buying so much, they essentially authenticated the existence of much more salad oil than was actually accounted for in the entire United States, according to monthly reports from the Department of Agriculture.

Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 15. 7 % of the GDP in 2009 – 10, employed 52. 1 % of the total workforce, and despite a steady decline of its share in the GDP, is still the largest economic sector and a significant piece of the overall socio-economic development of India.

The Farm Credit Administration, an independent agency located within the Department of Agriculture, supervises and coordinates a cooperative credit system for agriculture.

The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.

Agriculture also called farming or husbandry is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel and other products used to sustain life.

* Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health

It was initiated in 1950 by K. M. Munshi, the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food to create an enthusiasm in the mind of the populace for the conservation of forests and planting of trees.

Agriculture in the Annapolis valley boomed in the late 19th century with the arrival of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, later the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which developed large export markets for Annapolis Valley apples.

Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Agriculture and industry account for only a small proportion of the islands ' GDP.

Agriculture and fisheries industry together account for 5 % of GDP.

In 1980s Soviet Ministry of Agriculture had successfully developed variants of foot-and-mouth disease, and rinderpest against cows, African swine fever for pigs, and psittacosis to kill chicken.

Nowadays, the agencies that are responsible for the biotechnology regulation are: US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) that regulates plant pests and medical preparation from living organisms, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) that regulates pesticides and herbicides, and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) which ensures that the food and drug products are safe and effective

Economist Paul Krugman commented that the incident showed that " the imperatives of crony capitalism trump professed faith in free markets ," at least for the Department of Agriculture at the time.

Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounts only for 4. 9 % of the GDP as of 2007 and employed 13. 6 % of the country's labor force.

The World War II-era Department of Agriculture film Hemp for Victory, encouraging the growing of hemp for war uses, has achieved a similar cult status.

In addition, the 1947 Transport Act improved provision of rural bus services, while the Agriculture Act 1947 established a more generous subsidy system for farmers.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

While the government and parliament moved to Berlin, as a compromise, some of the ministries ( such as Defence and Agriculture ) largely remained in Bonn, with only the top officials in Berlin.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

Agriculture was essentially exempted from previous agreements as it was given special status in the areas of import quotas and export subsidies, with only mild caveats.

Agriculture was mostly at the subsistence level, and the only important export commodities were currants, raisins and tobacco.

In the Italian referendums of 1993, voters approved substantial changes, including moving from a proportional to an Additional Member System, which is largely dominated by a majoritarian electoral system and the abolition of some ministries, some of which, however, have been reintroduced with only partly modified names, such as the Ministry of Agriculture reincarnated as the Ministry of Agricultural Resources.

Agriculture and fishing were the best developed resources, but only through years of painstaking investment and toil.

Agriculture ( including artisanal and forestry ), once the backbone of the economy, now accounts for only around 3 % of the GDP.

Brendan Smith, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, stated the pork contamination was caused by PCB-contaminated feed that was used on 9 of Ireland's 400 pig farms, and only one feed supplier was involved.

The species is classified a " Small wild / exotic canid " by the United States Department of Agriculture, along with the coyote, dingo, jackal, and arctic fox, and is considered the only species of fox, other than the domesticated silver fox, which can properly be kept as a pet.

Agriculture and commercial fishing form only 4 % of the city economy, with manufacturing forming 16. 2 % and the service sector forming 78. 2 %.

Agriculture has a significant impact on the county, although farm workers account for only about 5 percent of the county's workers.

Agriculture was the only appropriate way of life for the Hua-Hsia.

Agriculture and animal husbandry were the only means of existence for many centuries.

* Agriculture doesn ’ t play as much of a prominent role as it did in the 20th century, with the only remaining viable agricultural market being the livestock auction.

The three agencies are headed by administrators, who each report to the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development ( the RUS administrator is the only one of the three who is Senate-confirmed ).

The European Commissioner responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Cioloş in his Public Hearing upon his nomination has showed his concern in small farms: " small holdings represent an important share, not only in the new Member States but also in South Europe ".

Agriculture was the only sector which failed to respond to the programme.

Agriculture in the United States is one of the most hazardous industries, only surpassed

These two executive orders not only transferred to the National Park Service all the War Department historic sites, but also the national monuments managed by the Department of Agriculture and the parks in and around the capital, which had been run by an independent office.

In 1897, Matsukata Masayoshi convinced Ōkuma to participate in his second administration as Foreign Minister and Agriculture and Commerce Minister, but again, he remained in office for only one year before resigning.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization achieved near-universal agreement in 2008 that such payments directly valuing ecosystem preservation and encouraging permaculture were the only practical way out of a food crisis.

Agriculture has long been important, and until only decades ago the more marginal outfields in Upper Gjerstad were still utilized.