Chapter 5: The North American Manufacturing Core

Agriculture

here are only about 500 farms in Alaska, most clustered in the 880,000 acre Matanuska Valley northeast of Anchorage.

n terms of revenue generated, Alaska's top five agricultural products are greenhouse and nursery products, hay, dairy products, potatoes, and cattle and calves.

Livestock

he most valuable livestock commodity produced in Alaska is milk, followed by eggs and beef cattle. Alaskan farmers also raise chickens, hogs, sheep, and lambs. Native Alaskan Inuit maintain herds of reindeer as a source of meat and hides.

Crops

reenhouse and nursery products are the top agricultural revenue producers in Alaska.

arley, hay, oats, and potatoes are prevalent field crops.

imber, spread over 25 million acres, is also important to the state.


Manufacturing

Food processing (fish products) is Alaska's leading manufacturing activity, in terms of value added by manufacture. Ketchikan, on Kodiak Island, is considered the center of the world's salmon-packing industry.

petroleum products rank second.
Mining

il provides about 95 percent of Alaska's mining income. Other mined products are gold, zinc, silver, coal, crushed stone, lead, molybdenum, and sand and gravel.
Fishing

laska's fish catch is the most valuable among the 50 states. The most important commercial fishing ports are at Kodiak and Unalaska/Dutch Harbor.

arge catches of cod, flounder, pollock, rockfish, sablefish, salmon, and smelt drive the industry.

ungeness crab, king crab, scallops, sea urchins, shrimp, snow crab, and herring eggs are other important products of the fleet.
Services

overnment services, public schools, public hospitals and military bases. Tourism is a major sector of Alaska's economy attracting over one million visitors annually.

Sources

Claus-M. Naske and F. Patrick Fitzgerald, "Alaska," World Book Online Americas Edition, http://www.worldbookonline.com/wbol/wbPage/na/ar/co/010640, August 14, 2001.

U.S. Department of Agriculture: National Agricultural Statistics Service, "Alaska State Agriculture Overview, 2004", 3 January 2006, <http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Ag_Overview/AgOverview_AK.pdf> (12 January 2006)

"Alaska." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 1 May 2007 <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9111277>.

Alaska is very rich in natural resources. Lakes, forests, fish, game animal and also soil are all natural resources found in Alaska. There are also below ground natural resources found in Alaska. There is gold, oil and cranium. There is also coal silver and copper. Some other ones are natural gasses, uranium, tungsten and finally jade.
Alaska grows and raises many things. Potatoes, oats, hay, cabbage, barley and many other things are all things that Alaska grows. Alaska raises many things such as chickens, hogs, cows, dairy cows and sheep.
 manufacturing accounts for 3 percent of the growth of the state! Fish products are one of the major manufactured goods in the state. Almost any where you go you can buy fish products. Furs are important, too. Paper, lumber, wood, cement blocks and concrete blocks are all things that Alaska manufactures.


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