ABSTRACT
The United Kingdom has no agricultural regions, in the sense of major regions in which agriculture occupies the majority of the occupied population. The regions that depend most on agriculture are East Anglia, with 9 per cent of its occupied population in agriculture, and Northern Ireland, with 8 per cent. In England and Wales, moreover, the essentially rural areas, with relatively high proportions of their occupied populations in agriculture, do not form very large continuous tracts. The East Anglia Economic Development Council, for instance, identified two agricultural areas – North Norfolk and the Isle of Ely – as areas of low growth. France's most obvious agricultural problem region is the west. The main features of Italian development since the war has been a great acceleration of economic growth generally, and a conscious effort of policy to redress the relative and absolute disadvantages of the south.
