Yet, despite this reputation as an agricultural powerhouse, the country still imports half its food.

Saudi Arabia, for example, tried to use its oil windfall of the 1970's and early 1980's to become an agricultural powerhouse.

Apply an agrarian reform, to make Venezuela an agricultural powerhouse.

But soya has turned Argentina into a global agricultural powerhouse alongside Brazil.

St. Croix was once an agricultural powerhouse in the Caribbean, but ended with the rapid industrialization of the island's economy in the 1960s.

In his restless wanderings, Mr. Cooke compiles a comprehensive report on an industrial and agricultural powerhouse coming to life after the dead years of the Depression.

For an agricultural powerhouse like Brazil, where orange trees outnumber people, the threat posed by citrus sudden death is a serious one.

Overseas, Canada is revered, even feared, as a lean and mean agricultural powerhouse.

It is an industrial, financial and agricultural powerhouse that in the words of Rodolfo Konder, the municipal secretary of culture, yearns to be recognized as "a world-class city."

The first bridge, which opened in 1901, helped to transform the small semi-rural community into a turn-of-the-century agricultural powerhouse.