This document summarizes key agricultural industries and economic crops in South America. It notes that most agriculture is for self-sufficiency rather than commercial purposes. Major crops include coffee, sugar cane, corn, potatoes, fruits, and cotton. Brazil and Argentina have many commercial farms and South America accounts for 10% of global agricultural exports. Livestock production is focused on beef and dairy cows, sheep, and poultry. Fisheries are concentrated along the coasts and in the Amazon River basin. Forestry output is primarily from cultivated forests and used domestically due to restrictions on deforestation.

1. Economic Characteristic of
South America
Agriculture livestock Fishery Forestry
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2. Cultivation of
South America
Most agriculture in South America is a
self-sufficiency cultivation and not much of
commercial cultivation. South America uses
fewer chemicals and limited areas..
Sugar
cane
coffee
Corn
Potato
Fruits
Rice
Cotton
coffee

3. The important economic crops
1.Coffee – It is cultivated all through the continent and has made South
America became the world’s largest coffee exporter.
2.Sugar cane – Brazil is a leader in using sugar cane as a raw material to
produce alcohol.
3.Corn – It is cultivated in Brazil, Argentina,Uruguay and Peru.
4.Potato – It is the food crop that spread all through the continent.

4. 5.Rice – It is cultivated a lot in the basin of Brazil,Uruguay,Guyana and
Suriname
6.Fruits – Fruits that are grown commercially are bananas,which are
exported to Europe and USA Market.
7.Cocoa – It is a native crop of the tropical climate of South America.Its
seeds are used in making chocolate.
8.Cotton – It is highly cultivated in Brazil,Argentina,Paraguay.

5. South America is one of the leading players
in the global agricultural market and accounts for
approximately 10% of the world’s agricultural product export.
South America also has many commercial farms, especially in
Argentina Brazil Chile Uruguay Colombia

6. livestock
Livestock production systems are
considered to be the most appropriate
social, economic and cultural strategy for
maintaining the welfare of communities
because this is the only activity that can
simultaneously provide security for daily
subsistence, preserve ecosystems, promote
wildlife conservation and satisfy cultural
traditions and values.

7. Important livestock
Beef cows and dairy cows – Brazil is the largest producer in South
America,which is the world’s second largest after India.
Sheep – important areas for sheep farming are in the Brazillian
highland,Patagonia highland in the south of Argentina.
Pigs – they are raised for domestic consumption.The important
country that raises pigs is Brazil.
Poultry – The important one is chicken,which are lot in every contry.

8. Fishery
The highly productive coastal fisheries of the region, together with the
major riverine/estuarine system of the Amazon basin, and a range of
lesser river systems, lakes and wetlands, provide a massive resource
which is largely exploited by a diverse range of small-scale fisheries.

9. Forestry
The important area of the continent is the selvas forest,but due to the
global campaign against deforestation,forest industry of South America
is mostly from forest cultivation.
Most of the wood products are for domestic use,and the export of
timbers and logs in low quanlity.

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