Then American competition made it impossible for the farmers to market these products profitably. Many of the farmers were ruined. They changed to stock and dairy farming. Fishing and Industry Fishing is a profitable occupation for many Danes. All along the coast fishermen are hard at work with boats and nets to bring in the plaice, or flatfish, herring, cod, eels, and other fishes that, with fish products, make up a large part of the country's food and exports.
Industry now provides more of the national income than does agriculture.
Each year more people are employed in manufacturing and handicrafts. Artistic designers and skilled craftsmen turn out elegant modern silver goods, china and ceramics, textiles, and furnishings that are admired and widely bought abroad. The leading industries are iron and other metal manufacturing and the processing of foodstuffs. Also important are the paper and graphics industries, transport, footwear and clothing, wood and furniture, and mineral extraction industries. People The cities, even around the port districts, are so clean that they look as if they are carefully scrubbed every night.