Total Area:243,610 sq km
Land Area:241,930 sq km
Water Area:1,680 sq km
Climate description: Temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the days are overcast
Terrain description: mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
Arable Land Use: 23.23%
Permanent Crop Land Use: 0.2%
Irrigated Land: 1,950 sq km (2003)
Total Renewable Water Resources: 160.6 cu km (2005)
Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 11.75 cu km/yr
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 197 cu m/yr
Natural Hazards description: winter windstorms; floods
Environmental Current Issues:continues to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (has met Kyoto Protocol target of a 12.5% reduction from 1990 levels and intends to meet the legally binding target and move toward a domestic goal of a 20% cut in emissions by 2010); by 2005 the government reduced the amount of industrial and commercial waste disposed of in landfill sites to 85% of 1998 levels and recycled or composted at least 25% of household waste, increasing to 33% by 2015
Total Labor Force: 31.9 million
% of Labor Force in Agriculture: 1.4%
Agricultural Products description: cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish
Land Area:241,930 sq km
Water Area:1,680 sq km
Climate description: Temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the days are overcast
Terrain description: mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
Arable Land Use: 23.23%
Permanent Crop Land Use: 0.2%
Irrigated Land: 1,950 sq km (2003)
Total Renewable Water Resources: 160.6 cu km (2005)
Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 11.75 cu km/yr
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 197 cu m/yr
Natural Hazards description: winter windstorms; floods
Environmental Current Issues:continues to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (has met Kyoto Protocol target of a 12.5% reduction from 1990 levels and intends to meet the legally binding target and move toward a domestic goal of a 20% cut in emissions by 2010); by 2005 the government reduced the amount of industrial and commercial waste disposed of in landfill sites to 85% of 1998 levels and recycled or composted at least 25% of household waste, increasing to 33% by 2015
Total Labor Force: 31.9 million
% of Labor Force in Agriculture: 1.4%
Agricultural Products description: cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish
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Farming in Britain. Farming contributed £5.6 billion to the UK economy in 2006.
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www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk
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If lamb prices continue to drop, farmers say that large tracts of countryside that can only be used for sheep grazing will be left to go to scrub.
www.theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com
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UK harvest. Farmers are desperately hoping for sunshine to stop another disastrous harvest.
www.telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk
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A look at how the machines have helped farmers do all the work in a much shorter time period.
www.auchenflower-cottages.co.uk
www.auchenflower-cottages.co.uk