Industry+&+Agriculture-Chile

Industry and Agriculture Industry and Agriculture of Chile. The first Spanish settlers came to South America with high hopes of getting rich. Priveleged noble men were granted large acres of land,on witch they ever hoped with plantations. Each hacienda was a self instructed community, produceing good clothing and food like so. Chile is a very interesting place because it has a wide range of different activities due its particular geography, climate and geology and human factors. Historically agriculture is one of the bases of Chile's economy, now agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounts only for 4.9% of the GDP as of 2007 and employed 13.6% of the country's labor force. Some major agriculture products of Chile includes grapes, apples, pears, onions, wheat, corn, oats, peaches, garlic, asparagus, beans, beef, poultry, wool, fish and timber. Due to its geographical isolation and strict customes policies Chile is free from diseases such as mad cow, fruit fly and phloxera, this plus being located in the southern hemisphere (having quite different havresting times compared to the Northern Hemisphere) and its wide range of agriculture conditions are considered Chiles main However, the mountainous landscape of Chile limits the extent and intensity of agriculture so that arable land corresponds only to 2.62% comparative advanteges of the total territory. That is a lot of numbers.

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