Industry and construction account for approximately one-fifth of GDP and labor, while agriculture is responsible for 2. 1 % of GDP and 8. 5 % of the labor force.

From 1950 to 1980, DDT was extensively used in agriculture — more than 40, 000 tonnes were used each year worldwide — and it has been estimated that a total of 1. 8 million tonnes have been produced globally since the 1940s.

* over 40 %, or 1, 074 million, in agriculture.

The service sector contributes around 70 % of the total GDP, industry 29. 1 %, and agriculture 0. 9 %.

The total land area of Honduras is 11. 2 million hectares, of which a scant 1. 7 million hectares ( about 15 percent ) are well suited for agriculture.

Although Hungary enjoyed one of the most liberal and economically advanced economies of the former Eastern bloc, both agriculture and industry began to suffer from a lack of investment in the 1970s, and Hungary's net foreign debt rose significantly — from $ 1 billion in 1973 to $ 15 billion in 1993 — due largely to consumer subsidies and unprofitable state enterprises.

The latter measure was applied after the so-called general strike from 1 September to 3 September 1942, which paralyzed the administration, agriculture, industry and education as response to the declaration of forced conscription by the German administration on 30 August 1942.

Although arable land accounts for only 1 % of Namibia, nearly half of the population is employed in agriculture.

agriculture 1 %, industry 20 %, services 79 % ( 2007 est.

Larger amounts of smoke would produce larger climate changes, and for the 150 Teragrams ( Tg ) case produce a true nuclear winter ( 1 Tg is 10 ^ 12 grams ), making agriculture impossible for years.

Today, agriculture only comprises about 2. 6 % of Taiwan's GDP or about US $ 1 billion.

An EU-Turkey Customs Union came into effect on 1 January 1996, allowing goods to travel between Turkey and the EU member states without customs restrictions, although it crucially stopped short of lifting restrictions in areas such as agriculture.

In 2009, former Tupamaro and agriculture minister José Mujica, was elected president, subsequently succeeding Vázquez on March 1, 2010.

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: agriculture: 1 %

The largest component of its economy is the service sector ( 67, 3 %), followed by the industry sector ( 28, 1 %) and the agriculture sector ( 4, 6 %).

Medical science and the Green Revolution in agriculture enabled the world's population to grow from about 1. 6 billion to about 6. 0 billion.

Of the 410, 100 persons in the county's workforce as of 2009, 25 % are employed in the fields of education, health, and human services, and 10 % in retailing, with less than 1 % in agriculture.

In the Dynasty IV era of Egypt, between 2675 and 2565 BC, wealthy members of society were known to own over 1, 000 donkeys, employed in agriculture, as dairy and meat animals and as pack animals.

In fact, agriculture is the only sector to record negative growth in the state, contributing only 1. 3 % to the state GDP in 2000.

Despite the heavy industrial component, services account for 74. 9 % of GDP, while agriculture accounts for only 1 % of GDP.

In 2001, total land area usage in Mysore city was 39. 9 % residential, 16. 1 % roads, 13. 74 % parks and open spaces, 13. 48 % industrial, 8. 96 % public property, 3. 02 % commercial, 2. 27 % agriculture and 2. 02 water.

* Madison Collection Approximately 1, 000 photographs of Madison County area people, industries, and agriculture.

Commerce ( 23. 1 %), tourism ( 10. 1 %) and financial activities ( 3. 9 ) are all important for the local economy, while the contribution from agriculture and fishing is marginal, employing 6. 5 % of the workforce on a Swiss average of 15. 4 %.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

Perhaps, as Mr. Freeman says, American agriculture may stop the Communists, but it is also swindling the American taxpayer.

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

Land reform programs need to be supplemented with programs for promoting rural credits and technical assistance in agriculture.

The present Federal program of vocational education began in 1917 with the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act, which provided a continuing annual appropriation of $7 million to support, on a matching basis, state-administered programs of vocational education in agriculture, trades, industrial skills and home economics.

In a climate hostile to agriculture, Mr. Clark has had to keep alert to the most productive farm techniques.

The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many Southern states, suffered economic hardship, in part because of continued dependence on agriculture.

Following World War II, Alabama experienced growth as the economy of the state transitioned from one primarily based on agriculture to one with diversified interests.

The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science.

A history of world agriculture: from the Neolithic Age to the current crisis.

* UKAgriculture. com – Advance the education of the public in all aspects of agriculture, the countryside and the rural economy

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

Even though they do not compete directly with cultivated plants, sometimes winter annuals are considered a pest in commercial agriculture, because they can be hosts for insect pests or fungal diseases ( ovary smut – Microbotryum sp ) which attack crops being cultivated.

Ironically, the property that they prevent the soil from drying out can also be problematic for commercial agriculture.

The western coast of Anatolia that borders the Sea of Marmara consists mainly of rolling plateau country well suited to agriculture.

Irrigated agriculture is restricted to the areas surrounding rivers and wherever sufficient underground water is available.

However, actual rainfall from year to year is irregular and occasionally may be less than, leading to severe reductions in crop yields for both rain-fed and irrigated agriculture.

The few valleys and plains in these mountains tend to be fertile and to support diverse agriculture.

For example, the monumental structures at Göbekli Tepe were built by hunters and gatherers a thousand years before the development of agriculture.

In geography and agriculture, arable land ( from Latin arāre ; “ To plough, To farm ”) is land that can be used for growing crops.

Innovations such as pottery, food storage, and agriculture enabled this rapid growth.