Agriculture in Costa Rica
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COSTA RICA, 2012/12/28
Food matters. It’s as essential as the air we breathe and the water we drink. Your health is as well a reflection of what you eat. Eating industrially processed food that’s missing nutrients and full of chemical residues will from presently on cause chronic health problems. A lot of people today are still unaware of this cause and effect principle.
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COSTA RICA, 2012/12/28
Sooner or later, things will have to change. According to sustainable agriculture experts, Costa Rica’s current agricultural system is threatening its own next through farming practices that over-exploit the natural resources on which production depends in order to maximize short-term profit. Even solely in economic terms, for a country that depends on agriculture for about 6.5 % of its gross domestic product and to provide work for 14 % of its labor force, this a critical issue.
