Excerpt from The Agricultural Economy and Trade of the Federal Republic of Germany Agriculture is not a highly profitable enterprise in West Germany. Farming contributes only 3 to h percent to gross national product, yet the agricultural sector employs nearly 10 percent of the labor force; thus, the average income of farmers is much lower than the average in other professions. The future of West German agriculture will not be especially bright unless there is progress in structural reform. More farmers need to leave the land, and the farms need to be enlarged to make better use of economies of scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.