Saturday, October 18, 2008

Agriculture, Gathering, and Extractive Industries

North Carolina is one of the agriculture leaders in tobacco, and The main agriculture outputs of North Carolina are poultry, eggs, tobacco, hogs, milk, nursery stocks, cattle, sweet potatoes, soy beans, and cotton. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the state's 2006 total gross state product was $375 billion on agriculture, even with a huge decline of farms in North Carolina it is still the leader in tobacco growing and textile manufacturing in the United States. Over the past few years couple of North Carolina main agriculture products has being hit hard. For example textile, tobacco and furniture, because many of those industries has been moving out of the country one in every five jobs in the state has moved offshore, to china or South America. The textile was moving to south America, and furniture moving to mainly china. But in recent years a lot of farmers have been moving in growing grapes for wines and more organic products.

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