APHG - Where is Agriculture Distributed?

Mixed Crop and Livestock (developed)

>> both animal and crops are farmed in the same area, it's helpful because farmers could distribute the workload more evenly through the year >> crop rotation MIDWEST AND CENTRAL EUROPE

Ranching (developed)

>> commercial grazing of livestock over a large area >> semi-arid or arid land >> become part of meat-processing industry

Grain (developed)

>> distinguished from mixed crop and livestock farming bc crops are grown for human consumption >> farmers sell to large companies >> heavily mechanized

Intensive Subsistence (wet rice) (developing)

>> dominant type of agriculture in SOUTHEAST CHINA, EAST INDIA, SOUTHEAST ASIA

Mediterranean

>> every site that practices this borders a sea >> crops grown for human consumption >> horticulture forms the base

Shifting Cultivation (developing)

>> farmers clear land w/ slash & burn agriculture >> grows crops on a cleared site for a few years and move and and come back later

Intensive Subsistence (other) (developing)

>> feeds 3/4 of the world's population who live in developing countries >> most is done by hand

Pastoral Nomadism (developing)

>> form of subsistence agriculture based on herding animals. >> only 15 million practice it but it takes up 20% of the world's land >> similar to transhumance, practiced in areas where there is little arable land

Plantation

>> large farm that specializes in one or two crops >> cotton, coffee, sugarcane, rubber, tobacco >> tropics and subtropics >> LDCs

Dairying (developed)

>> most important type of commercial agriculture >> milkshed >> labor intensive, winter feed

Commercial Gardening

>> predominant in southeastern us >> truck farming >> some sold to consumers but mostly to large companies for canning and freezing

Geographer ________________ _____________________ identified 11 main agricultural regions, plus an area where agriculture was nonexistent.

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