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Agriculture(4) Britain’s animal husbandry constitutes an important part of the nation’s agriculture. The highland zone is covered by grassland Owing to the mild climate and abundant rainfall, the area is green all the year round. Now about 3/5 of full-time farmers are devoted to dairying, beef cattle and sheep. Agriculture(5) Forestry is of minor national importance, but has given useful employment in remote districts that have been reforested. Fishing has been a major activity. Major fish-processing industries are l9cated in Aberdeen, Grimsby, Hull, and Yarmouth. International tensions over access to fishing grounds in the North Atlantic and Arctic threaten the industry. Section 3 The Current UK Economy Britain is highly industrialized, national economies can be broken down into three main areas: “primary” industries, such as agriculture, fishing and mining; “secondary” industries, which manufacture complex goods from these primary products; and tertiary industries, often described as services, such as banking, insurance, tourism, and the selling of goods. The Current UK Economy (1) Britain’s agricultural sector is small (producing 1.4% of the national wealth)but efficient, producing 58% of the UK’s food meets with only 2% of its workforce. Three quarters of Britain’s land is used for agriculture, with about a quarter of that under crops-wheat and barley are the two commonest. The Current UK Economy Main agricultural products are wheat, barley, oats, peas, beans, vegetables, sugar beets and green fodder crops. The Current UK Economy The rest is grazing for animals, including cattle (both dairy and beef), though sheep are the most numerous livestock. Livestock farming constitutes an important part of the nation’s agriculture. The beef industry has been hot badly by BSE disease in 1996 on beef exports. The Current UK Economy (2) Energy production is an important part of the UK economy, accounting for 5% of the national wealth. Since the 1970s,when oil and gas