50 YEARS FROM NOW

50 Years from Now

50 Years from Now

Introduction

In the United States industrialized farming has become agribusiness as big companies and larger family-owned farms have taken control of almost three-fourths of U.S. food production.

the U.S. food system is increasingly dominated, which are roughly to farming In total annual sales, agriculture is bigger than the automotive, steel, and housing industries combined. It generates about 18% of the country's gross national income and almost a fifth of all jobs in the private sector, employing more people than any other industry. With only 0.3% of the world's farm labor force, U.S. farms produce about 17% of the world's grain and nearly half of the world's corn and soybean exports. Since 1950, U.S. farmers have used green revolution techniques to more than double the yield of key crops such as wheat, corn, and soybeans without cultivating more land. Such increases in the yield per hectare of key crops have kept large areas of forests, grasslands, wetlands, and easily erodible land from being converted to farmland. In addition, the country's agricultural system has become increasingly efficient. While the U.S. output of crops, meat, and dairy products has been increasing steadily since 1975, the major inputs of labor and resources with the exception of pesticides to produce each unit of that output have fallen steadily since 1950. U.S. consumers now spend only about 2% of their income on domestically produced food, compared to about 11% in 1948.

Chinese migrated from rural areas to cities in search of jobs. According to projections by the World watch Institute and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, China's grain production could fall much more between 2003 and 2030, mostly because of water shortages, degraded cropland, diversion of water from cropland to cities, and continued conversion of cropland to nonfarm uses. As incomes in China have risen, so has meat consumption. Even if China's currently booming economy resulted in no increases in meat consumption, the projected drop in grain production would mean that by 2030 China would need to import more than the world's total grain exports (roughly half of which come from the United States). But suppose the increased demand for meat led to a rise in per capita grain consumption equal to onehalf the current U.S. level. Then China would need to import more than the entire current grain output of the United States.

Chinese Farmer

What do they eat everyday?

China is an agricultural country, and fieldwork has been the main point of employment. Most Chinese men were farmers; they provided enough food for almost all the people by growing two or more crops on the same land each year. Chinese farmer live more sustain ably and save money by growing more of their food, in 1950s they grew several types of crops in their grassland and use such seasonal crops as their food.

But now, the Chinese farmer tends to have a higher disposable income which allows them to purchase more food, including beef. Beef is becoming common in meals of a ...