Objective 02.02

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Objective 02.02

• Name agriscience products and their impact on
  national and international economic growth.

2

• 20 of all jobs in the US are agriscience related
• Jobs include those that help support farmers meet
  the worlds needs
• Areas
• Production
• Processing, products, and distribution
• Supplies and services

3

• Agricultural production is supported by many more
  careers than actually exist in production
• The projection is for the average size of farms
  in the US to increase while the number of farms
  decrease.
• In the mid 1990s the 1 meat export as far as
  tonnage shipped from the US is poultry.

4

• Corn ranks in the top 5 US grain exports year
  after year.
• Soybeans are the worlds most important source of
  vegetable oil and provide basic materials for
  hundreds of product.

5
North Carolina Agriculture

• The top 3 ag. Commodities in terms of cash
• Hogs,
• Broilers
• tobacco

6
Green Revolution vs. Green Industry

• The Green Revolution was the process where many
  countries became self-sufficient in food
  production by using improved crop varieties and
  practices.

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Green Industry

• The modern horticulture industry with emphasis on
  turf and landscape plants