The pie charts display the proportion of water usage for six types of agricultural products and the proportion of profit taken from each product in Australia in 2004.
¬¬¬¬In general, it’s notable that vegetables accounted for the biggest share of water usage. However, its contribution to the countries economy was not as high as its water usage. While, even though less amount of water spent on fruits, this product was the number one contributor of economy. In addition, there were also products which showed the same percentage in both charts, namely cereal and lime.
Looking at the first chart in detail, we can see that brackets of vegetables and fruits were much bigger than other four types of agricultural products, especially vegetables, accounting for 46% of the total water expenditure, while fruits accounted for 28%. As regards products with smaller shares, such as cereal and lime contributed for 12% and 8%, respectively. The last two products with the smallest proportion were rice and dandelion, with only 3%.
Regarding to incomes from these products, similar domonance of fruits and vegetables were observed, but here, fruits accounted for the buggest share of income, with 40% of the total profit for country’s economy, while vegetables showed 31%. Turning to other products, both dandelion and lime showed 8%, whereas cereal contributed for 12%. The least profit was taken from rice, with only 1% share.