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Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment

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Agro 1103
Yim Wing Tam
Assignment 1. Your connection to agriculture. (10 pt)
1. What city, state, and country have you spent most of your life?
I am born and raised in Hong Kong and I have spent most of my life there. Hong Kong is full of sky scrappers and we seldom see farmlands here. Since the land in Hong Kong is limited, we do not have large pieces of land for agricultural purposes. Most of our food is imported from other countries. However, we got a few small farmlands in Hong Kong, but they are mostly owned and used by households to grow crops and feed on their own, not for sale.

2. What is your connection to agriculture?
Although I am not from a farm, I think I am still closely related to agriculture since my major is nutrition. As a nutrition major, it is important to know the chemistry of food and plants, the growing places of crops in the United States, the way farmer grow the crops, the benefits and risks behind organic crops, the benefits and risks of GMO and the potential food safety problems associated to pathogens, pesticides, toxicity. Besides, knowing how much crop grown and crop prices can give me a more complete picture on nutrition. Since food costs and availability influences people’s food choices and their nutrient intake. For example, the high costs for vegetables is one of the reason that causes obesity problem in the United States. Besides, one of my aunt is currently living in China, she owned a farmland and grow crops such as sweet potatoes, choy sum for her family.

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