Interesting Agriculture Facts


	Interesting Agriculture Facts

zephyr1

5-29-2007 1:48 PM

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agriculture, oats, apples, bananas, melons, cotton, tractors

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/71137c7d-ae07-43d0-8887-8f0df172277a/79961207-C96E-4D04-B779-C6522EC51FEB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php" href="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nationmaster.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php"><H4>Agriculture</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">People might eat <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-B/agr_gra_oat_con_cap">oats</A> when they're hungry, but people from <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/hu">Hungary</A> don't eat oats.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What is in a name? More than 90% of people in <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/bt">Bhutan</A>, <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/by">Burundi</A> and <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/uv">Burkina Faso</A> are <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_lab_sha">involved in agriculture</A>.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ic">Iceland</A> has far more <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_tra_con">tractors per 1000 hectares of cropland</A> than any other nation - more than twice that of the next highest country, <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/si">Slovenia</A>.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/cs">Costa Rica</A> leads the world in per capita <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_exp_to_usa_ban_cap">banana</A>, <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_exp_to_usa_mel_cap">melon</A> and <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_exp_to_usa_pin_cap">pineapple</A> exports to the <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us">USA</A>. Unsuprisingly, they’re also first in <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_pes_use">pesticide use</A>.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us">United States</A>, <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/in">India</A> and <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ch">China</A> account for a third of all <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_ara_and_per_cro">arable and permanent cropland</A> in the world.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ch">China</A> is the textile mill of the world: it leads in <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_cot_pro">cotton production</A>, but also in <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_cot_imp">cotton imports</A>.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/as">Australia</A> accounts for more <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_org_cro">organic cropland</A> than the next 36 countries combined.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/up">Ukraine</A> is the breadbasket of Europe, and the world's largest <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_pro_bar_gdp">producer of barley</A> and <A href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/agr_pro_tot_coa_gra_gdp">total coarse grain</A> per gdp.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/79961207-C96E-4D04-B779-C6522EC51FEB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>