>Most countries
>do not have the land base to allow them to produce the way the US does.
>Resource endowments are important.
So you're arguing in favor of trade based on comparative advantage? Or should regions with the advantage choose to forego it out of solidarity with the less endowed?
>Small island countries, Hong Kong and Singapore, can prosper with
>virtually no ag., but the LDCs as a whole cannot.
>
>Also, when you talk about industrialized ag. you have to include the labor
>involved in producing the inputs.
All right. Combining the categories agricultural chemicals, agricultural services, farm machinery and equipment, farm products-raw materials, and farm supplies, you get 0.8% of total employment in the U.S. Add that to some 2% for farm employment, and you're around 3%. That's a long way from 40%. What else should be included?
Doug