Agriculture
Agriculture
About 77 per cent of the land area of Britain is under agricultural use of some sort. However,
the sector's role in the economy is much smaller than in most other major industrial countries,
in terms of employment and contribution to GDP, reflecting Britain's early industrialization.
Agriculture employs less than 2 per cent of the population and contributes 2 per cent of GDP.
However, it achieves high levels of efficiency and productivity. Britain is self-sufficient in 58
per cent of all types of food and animal feed.
Large parts of Britain, notably in Scotland and Wales, are suitable only for grazing. Overall,
in the first half of the 1990s about 39 per cent of agricultural land was under pasture, another
27 per cent under rough grazing, and the remainder under crops or lying fallow. Over half of
all full-time farms are devoted to dairy or beef farming, or sheep. Cattle and sheep con...
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