Agribusiness in USA
The agribusiness is a very productive activity in USA, dominated by big enterprises, and with a lot of variants. Let's discover this important part of the USA's economy.
Economical face
The agribusiness is whole of industrial activities who produce the wealth, transform it, and distribute food.
Since the beginning, the United States of America are farm country. The agriculture occupies 2 % of his GDP, and they are the first exporters of farm products in the world.
Big companies (like Coca Cola and Boeing) control the agribusiness in USA.
Agricultural face
There are in the USA a big diversity of productions, because the territory is very immense, and the climate is very various. So Americans divided their territory in several parts: the belts.
The USA product for example:
- In breeding : cows, sheeps, pigs, chickens, ...
- In farming : cereals (wheat, rice, ...), soya, corn, ...
American farmers use the GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) to increase their production, but others farmers all over the world don't like this technique.
- Le cours du Pam's Blog sur la puissance des USA.
