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Descripción
Mapa Mental por 08aliso.burge, actualizado hace más de 1 año
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Primary Sector
- An extractive industry - agriculture, fishing, drilling and mining.
- Importance of Primary Sector
- Agriculture
provides important
raw materials and
ingredients for the
food processing
industry
- Forestry is
growing as
farmers try to
diversify out of
tradition
agriculture.
- Fishing
provides
employment
in coastal
communities.
- Quarrying
provides
essential
products for
the
construction
industry
- Agriculture
provides important
raw materials and
ingredients for the
food processing
industry
- Trends and Challenges in the Primary Sector.
- EU payments
policy has changed
meaning farmers
receive one single
farm payment
regardless of how
much output they
produce in a year.
- Small farms are
not economically
viable. There are
fewer but larger
farms that can
better achieve
economies of
scale
- Many
farmers are
being forced
to diversify
into other
practices
such as the
production
of biofuels
- Growing consumer
concerns over food
issues such as mad
cow disease.
Growth in the
amount of food
produced
organically.
- Farming is
sensitive to
climate
change in the
case of
flooding,
freezing and
storms.
- Overfishing has
resulted in tariffs and
quotas being put in
place by the EU to
stop the depletion of
fishing stock.
- The country
needs to
develop
renewable
sources of
energy and
become more
self-sufficient
- EU payments
policy has changed
meaning farmers
receive one single
farm payment
regardless of how
much output they
produce in a year.
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