1 Compare
1.1
Agribusiness USA, Agribusiness
Worldwide, US Military-Industrial Complex and Agroforestry
Agribusiness in the US is more than two times larger than the US
Military-Industrial Complex. Worldwide
Agribusiness is the world’s largest business at more than US$4T. Agroforestry is poised to sustainably
increase its share of responsibility for feeding the world by shifting the
growing and customer service aspects of Agribusiness over to Agroforestry on a
steady climb for the next several decades.
The baggage that Agribusiness carriers, such as all of the middlemen,
the gargantuan supply chains, massive warehouses and distribution chains will
be left behind since Agroforestry is organic, diversified, sustainable and
capable of servicing its consumers directly from its community base by using
e-commerce and piggybacking on the existing international courier
services. Without the extra baggage of
Agribusiness the cost to the consumer as a direct customer of Agroforestry may
actually decrease.
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AGRIBUSINESS
2.1
What is the Agribusiness
Industry?
The Agribusiness industry includes
businesses that directly engage in or directly benefit from agricultural
activities. Businesses in this industry may produce agricultural commodities,
buy agricultural produce or supply goods and services to farms and the
agriculture industry. This industry focuses on the food-supply chain up to, but
not including, the point of retail sale.
2.1.1
Industry Products
Crop and livestock farming; Food production;
Agribusiness services; Equipment and other manufacturing; Food and supplies
wholesaling
2.1.2
Industry Activities
Soybean and corn farming, Frozen foods; Beef
cattle production, dairy cattle farming and meat processing; Margarine and
cooking oil processing; Corn, soybean and wheat wholesaling; Dairy product and
milk production; Farm supplies and farm equipment wholesaling; Fruit and
vegetable wholesaling; Tractors and agricultural machinery retailing; Fertilizer
and pesticide http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/default.aspx?indid=2004
2.1.3
Revenue of agribusiness (NAICS
NN004) in the United States from 2009 to 2014 (in trillion U.S. dollars)
This
statistic displays annual revenue figures of agribusiness in the United States
from 2009 to 2014. In 2009, the revenue of agribusiness in the U.S. ranged at
1.7 trillion U.S. dollars. http://www.statista.com/statistics/296441/revenue-agribusiness-in-the-us/
2.1.4
Revenue of Agribusiness
Worldwide
2.1.4.1
The World's Biggest Industry
Euromonitor International reckons the
packaged food industry–including everything from pasta and cooking oil to
canned and frozen foods–is worth almost $1.6 trillion. Meanwhile, the World
Bank puts the food and agriculture sector at 10% of global gross domestic
product, which, taking the bank’s 2006 estimate of about $48 trillion, would
make the sector worth about $4.8 trillion.
http://www.forbes.com/2007/11/11/growth-agriculture-business-forbeslife-food07-cx_sm_1113bigfood.html
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The U.S. Military-Industrial
Complex
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Agroforestry
Agroforestry should slide into its realm
the consumer demand for grown food. This
shift is underway. The servicing of consumers
becomes a direct responsibility of the producer who responds directly to the
e-commerce generated orders of the consumer, one-by-one, on a repetitive basis
wherever the consumer is on the global courier routes. An example that is certain to open the reader’s
eyes is to examine one aspect of the agricultural matrix, which is its
livestock. Please view this aspect before moving on to
the explanation of agroforestry.
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