Why do about 50 percent of the people of Central America live on farms and in small villages?
Why do about 50 percent of the people of Central America live on farms and in small villages? I need clear, acurrate, facts please!
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Because they're primary producing nations whose economies are based primarily around agriculture. Hence they're not very urbanised countries so many people still live outside major cities.
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Why do about 50 percent of the people of Central America live on farms and in small villages?Central America is not much industrialized so the economy is rural .It is poor and wealth remains very polarized with average wages remaining low ; Guatemala : Some of the main products for export are fruits, vegetables, flowers, handicrafts, cloths and others. The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 58.7%, followed by the agriculture sector at 22.1%-------- Honduras wealth remains very polarized with average wages remaining low ------- Nicaragua's agrarian economy has historically been based on the export of cash crops such as bananas, coffee, sugar, beef and tobacco.----------Costa Rica Since 1999, tourism earns more foreign exchange than the combined exports of the country's three main cash crops: bananas, pineapples and coffee. Coffee production has played a key role in Costa Rica's history and economy and by 2006 was the third cash crop export
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