Agriculture in a Foreign Land Assignment MaTt WrIgHt SaM rUnYaN

1. Agriculture in a Foreign Land AssignmentMaTt WrIgHtSaM rUnYaN

2. History • In 1999, agriculture employed 23 percent of Mexico's labor force but accounted for only 5 percent of Mexico's GDP. Crop production was and continues to be the most important agricultural activity in Mexico, accounting for fully 50 percent of agricultural output.

3. Methods of production plants and animals • Agriculture is the production of food and goods through farming. . Collectively, these new methods of farming and fishing inaugurated a human . Although not usually food animals, the horse including donkeys and ponies and dog . These crops protect plants from damage by insects; one such crop is Starlink.

4. Manufacturing of agricultural products • The economyof Mexico is the 13th largest in the world. Since the 1994 crisis, administrations have improved the country's macroeconomic fundamental. Mexico was not significantly influenced by the recent 2002 South American crisis, and maintained positive, although low, rates of growth after a brief period of stagnation in 2001.

5. Distribution of agricultural products • The economy contains rapidly developing modern industrial and service sectors, with increasing private ownership. Recent administrations have expanded competition in ports, railroads, telecommunications, electricity generation, natural gas distribution and airports, with the aim of upgrading infrastructure.

6. Import/ Export arrangements with other countries • The government encourages local industry by giving financial support, customs protection, and tax exemption to approved or new enterprises. The National Financing Agency has supported new industries by purchasing their stock and then reselling it to the public when the firm is established.

7. Primary crop • Modern agronomy, plant breeding, pesticides and fertilizers, and technological improvements have sharply increased yields from cultivation, and at the same time have caused widespread ecological damage and negative human health effects.

8. Primary animals of production • The major agricultural products can be broadly grouped into foods, fibers, fuels, and raw materials. In the 2000s, plants have been used to grow biofuels, biopharmaceuticals, bioplastics, and pharmaceuticals.

9. Yield of corn per acre • Farmers today grow five times as much corn as they did in the 1930s – on 20 percent less land . That is 13 million acres or 20,000 square miles, twice the size of Massachusetts. The yield per acre has skyrocketed from 24 bushels in 1931 to 154 now, or a six-fold gain. And the Agriculture Department expects the average yield per acre to double in the next 25 years.

10. Agricultural policy of government • In the years after World War II, Mexico followed a relatively moderate import-substitution policy. By striking a relative balance between industrialization and growth of agricultural output, the government was able to maintain a steady rate of agricultural output and exports and to restrict its external borrowing requirements for many years.