Test your BC food knowledge

 1.Farming activities contribute approximately how much to the province’s Gross Domestic Product?
  1. $ 251 million
  2. $ 651 million
  3. $ 851 million
  4. $ 1 billion

2.What percent of BC’s 95 million hectares of land and freshwater area is considered arable or potentially arable (ie can be used to produce food)?

  1. 3 %
  2. 5 %
  3. 10%
  4. 20%

3.Approximately how much land has been set aside for the Agriculture Land Reserve (ALR)?

  1. 1.7 million hectares
  2. 4.7 million hectares
  3. 7.7 million hectares
  4. 10 million hectares

4.Agriculture workers make up approximately what percentage of the total BC workforce?

  1. 2 %
  2. 4 %
  3. 6 %
  4. 8 %

5.What does BC do more of overall: IMPORT agricultural and non-fish products or EXPORT agricultural and non-fish products?

6.What percent of the frozen meat products we eat comes from other provinces?

  1. 13 %
  2. 23 %
  3. 33 %
  4. 43 %

7.What percent of the cheese we eat comes from other provinces?

  1. 37 %
  2. 47 %
  3. 57 %
  4. 67%

8.BC exports more fresh fruit than it imports. Approximately how many times more is it?

  1. 2 times
  2. 4 times
  3. 14 times
  4. 18 times

9.What percent of the vegetables we eat do we import?

  1. 18 %
  2. 25 %
  3. 41 %
  4. 52%

10.The amount of processed foods we import from the US has increased. From 1988-1995, how much did it increase

  1. 100 %
  2. 200%
  3. 300%
  4. 400%

11.Do we import or export more processed fish products to/from the US?


























































RIGHT! (c) $ 851 million
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RIGHT! (a) 3 %
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RIGHT! (b) 4.7 million hectares
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RIGHT! (a) 2 % - Very few people growing a lot of food! Be sure to support them by buying local – we need them to keep on farming!
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RIGHT! import
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RIGHT! (d) 43 %, with most of our frozen meat coming from Alberta
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RIGHT! (d) 67 %, with most of our cheese coming from Ontario
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RIGHT! (d) 18 times !! It sounds like a lot (it is) but the next time you shop check out how many fruits you buy say "Product of US" or somewhere other than BC.
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RIGHT! (d) 52 %
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RIGHT! (c) 300 %
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RIGHT! Import – we hear so much about the BC fishing industry you’d think that we eat more BC fish…but we don’t

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