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Agriculture Industry Canadian agriculture industry is evidenced well before the influx of European who came for fur trade by the aboriginal people with hunting and processing of natural products in the province of British Columbia. For the past 100 years, agricultural industry has experienced a dramatic development. The number of farms had increased from 6,500 to 19, 225 from 1881 to 1991. Today, the agricultural industry is a major contributor to the B.C. economy. Agriculture in British Columbia is distinguished by its diversity. Some of the activities carried out by provincial farmers include: dairy farming; cattle-ranching; poultry-raising; and growing of tree fruits, vegetables, berries, grapes, mushrooms, bulbs, ornamental flowers and shrubs. The industry is the province's third largest primary industry, behind forestry and mining. According to the 1996 Census of Agriculture, the average census farm had an area of 116 hectares. However, farm size varies greatly depending on the type of activity, from thousands of hectares in grain or ranching enterprises to less than five hectares in mushroom, greenhouse and poultry businesses. v Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Businesses in B.C. Fruit, Vegetables and Field Crops Crops of major importance to British Columbia's agriculture in terms of annual value include floriculture and nursery, berries and grapes, and tree fruits. Southern interior valleys, principally the Okanagan, are well-suited to the production of tree fruits and grapes. The cooler and wetter climate of the lower Fraser Valley and southern Vancouver Island favors berry crops and vegetables. Greenhouse crops, nursery products, mushrooms and other specialty crops are concentrated in the southwestern corner of the province. The Lower Mainland area, and to some extent Vancouver Island, produces much of British Columbia's potatoes, vegetables, mushrooms, berries, floriculture, nursery crops and some apples because of the very rich soil and flat terrain of the Fraser River delta. The agriculture and food sector is a growth industry in BC that collectively employs some 250,000 people and generated $16 billion in total sales in 1996. Production from BC's farms and fisheries is equivalent to more than 60 per cent of the province's total food requirements; international exports for 1996 totaled $1.7 billion. BC farmers use advanced production techniques and follow strict standards for the production and harvesting of food crops. Foods grown and processed in BC are the freshest, safest and highest quality found anywhere in the world. Canadians are North American leaders in the development and adoption of technologies which reduce or eliminate the use of chemicals to control weed or insect pests. The BC greenhouse industry is a world leader in supporting reduction of chemicals in insect and weed control through a variety of innovative methods including beneficial insects (bugs eating other bugs). The food chain begins with the producer and ends with the consumer. The essential links between the two are the thousands of jobs for people who process, package, transport, distribute, sell, prepare and serve food products valued at $16 billion annually. Articles Engineering Newsgroups Usenet Usenet Newsgroups Newsgroups Server Colocation Music Lyrics

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