They may be owned by firms or co-operatives and hired by individual farmers. Machinery has also been widely used in the state farms of China. To ensure high yields and continued fertility farmers make use of every available type of manure including farm wastes, rotten vegetables, clippings, fish wastes, guano, animal dung especially those from the pig sties and poultry yards and human excreta.
Increasing amounts of artificial fertilisers are now being used in Japan, India and China, usually with government advice or assistance.
Padi is the most dominating crop produced in intensive subsistence agriculture. But due to differences in relief, climate, soil and other geographical factors, it is not practicable to grow padi in many parts of Monsoon Asia.
Though methods are equally intensive and farming is done on a subsistence basis, a very wide range of other crops are raised.
In most parts of North China, Manchuria, North Korea, northern Japan and Punjab, wheat, soya beans, barley or kaoliang a type of millet are extensively grown as major food crops. In the India Deccan and parts of the Indus basin sorghum or millet is the dominant crop due to the scarcity of rain and the poorer soils.
In many parts of continental South-East Asia such as the Dry Zone of Myanmar, the Korat Plateau of Thailand and the interior regions of Indo-China, the annual precipitation is too low for wet padi cultivation, and the substitute crops are millet, maize and groundnuts grown together with cotton, sugarcane and oil-seeds.
During recent decades, this type of agriculture has registered a significant improvement in the form of mechanisation, use of improved seeds and fertilisers and other modern systems of agro-science. You must be logged in to post a comment. Plantation Agriculture: Location and Characteristics with area maps. Importance of Agriculture for Economical Development of a Country. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.
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New banking and lending practices helped farmers afford new equipment. This was the birth of commercial agriculture. More developed nations tend to have commercial agriculture with a goal to produce food for sale in the global marketplace called agribusiness.
The food in commercial agriculture is also rarely sold directly to the consumer; rather, it is sold to a food-processing company where it is processed into a product. This includes produce and food products. An interesting difference between emerging countries and most developed countries MDC regarding agriculture is the percent of the workforce that farm. In emerging countries, it is not uncommon that over half of the workforce are subsistence farmers.
In the United States alone, less than 2 percent of the workforce are farmers, yet have the knowledge, skills, and technology to feed the entire nation. One of the reasons why only 2 percent of the United States workforce can feed the entire nation has to do with machinery, which can harvest crops at a large scale and very quickly.
MDCs also have access to transportation networks to provide perishable foods like dairy long distances in a short amount of time. Commercial farmers rely on the latest scientific improvements to generate higher yields, including crop rotation, herbicides and fertilizers, and hybrid plants and animal breeds. Another form of commercial agriculture found in warm, tropical climates, are plantations. A plantation is a large-scale farm that usually focuses on the production of a single crop such as tobacco, coffee, tea, sugar cane, rubber, and cotton, to name a few.
Plantations also tend to import workers and provide food, water, and shelter necessities for workers to live there year-round. Geographers are concerned with understanding why things happen in geographical spaces.
Because he was a keen observer of the landscape around him, he noticed that similar plots of land in different locations were often used for very different purposes. He concluded that these differences in land use between plots with similar physical characteristics might be the result of differences in location relative to the market. Thus, he went about trying to determine the role that distance from markets plays in creating rural land-use patterns. He was interested in finding laws that govern the interactions between agricultural prices, distance, and land use as farmers sought to make the greatest profit possible.
The dot represents a city, and the first ring white is dedicated to market gardening and fresh milk production. That is because of milk products and garden crops, such as lettuce, spoil quickly.
Because of this, producers of perishable crops were willing to outbid producers of less perishable crops to gain access to the land closest to the market. This means that land close to the community created a higher level of economic rent. This was because, in the early 19th century, people used wood for building, cooking, and heating.
Wood is bulky and heavy and therefore difficult to transport. Still, it is not nearly as perishable as milk or fresh vegetables. In his time, rye was the most important cash grain crop. Because the cost of gaining access to the land rent drops with distance from the city, those farming at the other edges of the ring would find that lower rents would offset increased transportation costs.
Therefore, they would not farm as intensely as those working land closer to the urban center. The fourth ring would be dedicated to livestock ranching. Additionally, products such as wool, hide, horn, and so on could be transported easily without concern about spoilage.
These lands, he argued, would eventually develop rent value, as the population of the state increased. Thus, in this fundamental theory, the only variable was the distance from the market. He developed it as an analytical tool that could be manipulated to explain rural land-use patterns in a world of multiple variables. He knew that this did not represent reality because already in his time, some roads were better than others, railways existed, and navigable water routes significantly reduced the friction of distance between the places they served.
Therefore, he introduced a navigable waterway into his model, and found that because produce would be hauled to docks on the stream for transport, each zone of production would elongate along the stream.
Eventually, as he worked with his model, he began to consider the effects of differences in climates, topography, soils, and labor.
Each of these could serve to benefit or restrict production in a given place. For example, lower wages might offset the advantages realized by being near a market.
The difference in the soil might also offset the advances of being close to the market. Thus, a farmer located some distance from the market with access to well-drained, well-watered land with excellent soil, and low-cost labor nearby, might be willing to pay higher rent for the property in question even if it were a bit further from the market than another piece of land that did not have such amenities.
Once real-world influences are allowed to invade the model, the concentric land-use pattern does not remain in place. Modern technology, such as advances in transportation systems, increasingly complicates the basic concentric circle model. Recent changes, like the demand for agricultural products, also influence land-use patterns.
Week Urban Structure - the location of things within an urban area Chapter Week Von Thunen Model - a model to explain where different crops are planted. Hotelling's Model of two ice cream vendors on a beach Central Place Theory. Commercial Agriculture. Subsistence Agricultural Regions: Shifting cultivation 2 Pastoral nomadism 3 Intensive subsistence: wet rice dominant 4 Intensive subsistence: crops other than rice 5 Plantation farming Commercial Agricultural Regions: Mixed crop and livestock farming 6 Dairy farming 7 Grain farming 8 Livestock ranching 9 Mediterranean agriculture 10 Commercial gardening and fruit farming Shifting cultivation Pastoral nomadism Intensive subsistence: wet rice dominant Intensive subsistence: crops other than rice Plantation farming Mixed crop and livestock farming Dairy farming Grain farming Livestock ranching Mediterranean agriculture Commercial gardening and fruit farming Little or no agriculture.
His model assumed: uniform soil and climate, no disturbing physical features i.
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