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* Agriculture is one of America’s most valuable industries, accounting for 2% of the US annual GDP. Today the U.S agriculture employs only 0.7% of the US economic employment population (2009). Plains make up about half of America’s large territory, with cultivated farmland constituting 19% of the total land area. The United States is the world’s richest agricultural nation, and owns highly favorable conditions for its agricultural development— the abundant natural resources, the moderate climate, the vast areas of land suitable for growing crops and a large diversity of landscapes… Compared with 1.5% in 2001 二. The characteristics of agricultural development 1. Agriculture is the very foundation on which to build the country. It’s the foundation of manufacture and business and is always the essential mainstay of the economy. 2. Highly commercialized family farms is the foundation. 以高度商业化的家庭农场为基础。 Though bigger farms have increasingly replaced small farming farms, the foundation of commercial farm is still be family farm. The owners of large farms are trying to make a bigger profit by developing agribusiness. 3. High degree of specialization of agriculture.(农业专业化程度很高） Some famous development belts were formed in America—corn belt, wheat belt, cotton belt, and so on. This kind of regional division let every region well displaying their respective advantages available. And it’s also favorable to reducing costs and increasing productivity. 4. Agriculture products are surplus, deeply relying on the international markets. The United States is the largest exporter of agricultural products. In 1930’s, on the ground of the surplus of the agricultural products, the serious agricultural crisis has happened to America’s agriculture, which gave it a ruinous blow. The distribution of America’s commercial grain agriculture technology industry population traffic climate water source soil topograph