1.   Living off its oil wealth, Venezuela neglected its agriculture for decades.

2.   Agriculture was badly neglected.

3.   Attention should notbe focussed on industry while agriculture is neglected and vice versa.

4.   IT takes an economic downturn and the threat of runaway inflation to jolt the people into acknowledging that the country has been neglecting agriculture, in particular food production.

5.   One of the reasons we are having recurring problems with food supply is because we have neglected agriculture in relation to the overall economic development.

6.   They say that it is very unwise to totally neglect agriculture in favour of industrial activities.

7.   With the advent of manufacturing, some countries made the mistake of totally neglecting agriculture.