Greece Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Agriculture === {{Main|Agriculture in Greece}} [[File:Zante currant drying in Tsilivi.jpg|thumb|Sun-drying of [[Zante currant]] on [[Zakynthos]]]] In 2010, Greece was the [[European Union]]'s largest producer of cotton (183,800 tons) and [[pistachios]] (8,000 tons)<ref name="eurostat agriculture 1">{{cite web|url=http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do |title=Crops products (excluding fruits and vegetables) (annual data) |publisher=[[Eurostat]] |access-date=19 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006122431/http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do |archive-date=6 October 2014 }}</ref> and ranked second in the production of rice (229,500 tons)<ref name="eurostat agriculture 1" /> and olives (147,500 tons),<ref name="eurostat agriculture 2" /> third in the production of [[Common fig|figs]] (11,000 tons),<ref name="eurostat agriculture 2" /> [[almond]]s (44,000 tons),<ref name="eurostat agriculture 2">{{cite web |url=http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do |title=Fruits and vegetables (annual data) |publisher=[[Eurostat]] |access-date=19 October 2011}}</ref> tomatoes (1,400,000 tons),<ref name="eurostat agriculture 2" /> and watermelons (578,400 tons)<ref name="eurostat agriculture 2" /> and fourth in the production of tobacco (22,000 tons).<ref name="eurostat agriculture 1" /> Agriculture contributes 3.8% of the country's GDP and employs 12.4% of the country's labor force.<!--ref name="CIAFactBook"/--> Greece is a major beneficiary of the EU's [[Common Agricultural Policy]]. As a result of the country's entry to the European Community, much of its agricultural infrastructure has been upgraded and agricultural output increased. Between 2000 and 2007, [[organic farming]] in Greece increased by 885%, the highest change percentage in the EU.<!--ref name="Eurostat Sustainable" /--> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page