Agriculture is the production of crops and livestock. Agriculture is very important for Australia because we export around 60 percent of our red meat and crops to other countries. Australia exports a lot of things including fruit, vegetables grains and meat. We export goods to over 100 countries a year like China, Japan, USA, Indonesia and many other countries. It is so important for Australia to export food because even though we only have 22.3 million people in Australia we provide food for 60 million people each year.
If we stop exporting Australian goods to other countries we and the people we export to are going to suffer. Firstly 172 000 people work in the red meat industry if we stopped exporting our meat to other countries they will lose their jobs. If they lose their jobs, they will need support from the government. The government will be losing money because they won’t be getting the 16 billion dollars that Australian exports provide.
Other countries need our exports because they have big populations to feed but they don’t have the land or resources to produce their own food. If we stop exporting to them they will not have the food to feed their people, the food they will have will be more expensive and a lot of people won’t be able to afford to eat.
