Today, the Valley is still largely dominated by agriculture but also has a growing diversity in its economies, partly aided by the importance of post-secondary education centres provided by Acadia University in Wolfville, and the Nova Scotia Community College campuses located in Kentville, Middleton, Lawrencetown, and Digby.

* Consider the importance of genetic resources for food and agriculture for food security

The continuing importance of agriculture in the county is reflected in the Suffolk Show, which is held annually in May at Ipswich.

Domestic agriculture ( rice being the dominant kind of crop ) and fisheries retain importance to a certain degree, but they have been greatly challenged by foreign imports since Taiwan's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Consequently, upon the decline of subsistent importance, Taiwan's agriculture now relies heavily on the marketing and exportation of certain kinds of specialty fruits, such as banana, guava, lychee, wax apple, and high-mountain tea.

Development of foreign trade and exports helped absorb excess labor from the decreased importance of agriculture in the economy.

Cotton plants thus have an enormous weight in the world economy and are of great importance for the agriculture, industry and trade of many tropical and subtropical countries in Africa, South America and Asia.

The reduced importance of agriculture in the Sicilian economy had led to a massive migration to the cities, especially Palermo, which swelled in size.

* Agrominerals – minerals of importance to agriculture and horticulture, and are usually essential plant nutrients.

The growing importance of agriculture was indicated by the export of 15, 000 kilograms of tobacco from Essequibo in 1623.

Of more importance is the modernization of agriculture, such as fertilizers, in order to provide enough yield to feed the population.

Statues of Ceres top the domes of the Missouri State Capitol and the Vermont State House serving as a reminder of the importance of agriculture in the states ' economies and histories.

First of all, the agriculture sector started to lose importance, and sought to survive by introducing specialised crops in valley bottoms and reinforcing cattle-raising at higher altitudes.

The Sumerian Ishkur appears in the list of gods found at Fara but was of far less importance than the Akkadian Adad later became, probably partly because storms and rain are scarce in southern Babylonia and agriculture there depends on irrigation instead.

In the mythology of Fiji, Ratumaibulu is a god of great importance who presides over agriculture.

Its most thriving period was in 1851 and, through its lumber, lime production, and agriculture, Diamond Springs has retained some of its early importance.

Known originally as San Benito, the town was renamed Spanishtown and attracted a thriving fishing industry in addition to its continued importance to coastal agriculture.

Valley SugarFest acknowledges the importance of sugarbeet agriculture in the Ada area and coincides with the annual Norman County Fair.

With changes in transportation, development of the Midwest, and other economic shifts, local agriculture declined in importance.

By 1940, agriculture was still a major industry, and the timber industry was growing in importance to the local economy.

The key goals that were identified by residents of the town of Roxbury and delineated in the plan were to preserve agricultural land and agriculture as a way of life, to preserve natural resources and wildlife, to preserve areas of cultural and historic importance, and to carefully site and design new development so as to maintain the existing character of the town.

In the 20th century, the motion picture industry rose to become one of the most successful and powerful industries in the U. S. Along with other intellectual property industries, its relative importance to the American economy has strengthened as the importance of manufacturing and agriculture have decreased ( due to globalization ).

The division of the shield symbolizes the importance of the number three: The three main sources of income are agriculture, mining, and fishing ; the municipality has three rivers ( Neiden, Pasvikelva and Jakobselva ) that form the borders of Norway, Russia, and Finland ; and there are three cultures in the municipality: Norwegians, Finns, and Sami.

It symbolizes this historic importance of agriculture in the area ; originally the growing of grains and then later growing potatoes.

As the service sector started to grow in importance and emerged as a significant employer and contributor to the GDP, academics and marketing practitioners began to look at the marketing of services in a new light.

Due to the fame and economic importance of its major employer, the city of changed its name to Toyota on January 1, 1959.

Hence the importance of the railway as an employer diminished.

In Somerset, the other families of importance were the Grants and the Delaneys, who ran Somerset's major employer, Delaney Brands.

The importance of Rousseau's twist has not always been clear to us, however.

Notable in this category are the Jupiter and Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles, which have been successfully developed, produced, and deployed, but the relative importance of which has diminished with the increasing availability of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.

The importance of the inorganic constituents in hard-surface cleaning has been emphasized in a number of papers.

The importance of particle size in such aerosols has been thoroughly demonstrated.

Proponents of single elements tend to ensure predominance of that element without determining if it is justified, and the element with the most enthusiastic and vociferous proponents has assumed the greatest importance.

This family has a remarkable ecological and economical importance, and is present from the polar regions to the tropics, colonizing all available habitats.

The main scholarly outlet has been the journal Annales d ' Histoire Economique et Sociale (" Annals of economic and social history "), founded in 1929 by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, which broke radically with traditional historiography by insisting on the importance of taking all levels of society into consideration and emphasized the collective nature of mentalities.

Only slower trains stop at these, but Aachen-West has developed enormous importance due to the expanding RWTH Aachen university.

Since the first pioneering efforts of Florey and Chain in 1939, the importance of antibiotics, including antibacterials, to medicine has led to intense research into producing antibacterials at large scales.

In line with Harold Innis ' " Staples Thesis ", the economy has changed substantially as different export commodities have risen or fallen in importance.

As part of the only passage between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, the Bosporus has always been of great commercial and strategic importance.

The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.

* The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, like Drosophila, has been studied largely because of its importance in genetics.

The importance of this family for food crops has led to its selective breeding throughout history.

) has its characteristic place of maximum importance along the ecoclines.

Its importance has been consolidated by successful large-scale forward genetic screens ( commonly referred to as the Tübingen / Boston screens ).

The contrast between civil law and common law legal systems has become increasingly blurred, with the growing importance of jurisprudence ( similar to case law but not binding ) in civil law countries, and the growing importance of statute law and codes in common law countries.

The business services sector is the fastest growing sector of the economy, and has overtaken all other sectors in importance.

With the growing importance and influence of China's economy globally, Mandarin instruction is gaining popularity in schools in the USA, and has become an increasingly popular subject of study amongst the young in the Western world, as in the UK.

It now has little economic importance.

The importance of usability in a system has developed over time.

Most modern cannon are similar to those used in the Second World War, although the importance of the larger caliber weapons has declined with the development of missiles.

From the time of Deng Xiaoping onwards, there has been a drift of focus towards a Marxist-inspired, moderated by Conficianism, nationalist perspective, and consideration of China's contemporary international status became of paramount importance in historical studies.