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process of raisinf products from soil
What is one of the most important industries in the world?
Agriculture
Agriculture provides us with
food
clothing
medicines
shelter
industrial products e.g. paint
approximatly ____ % people who work in agriculture
45%
in north america only _____% of population employed in agriculture
2-3% of population employed in
In some parts of Asia and Africa ___% employed in agriculture
80% of people employed
One of the worlds oldest industries are
Agriculture
Categories of agriculture
Commmercial
Subsistence
Commercial agriculture
Growing of crops for resale
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produce more food then required for eating
-Most of farmers in NA would be considered commercial farmers
Commercial farmers can be divided into groups
Specoalized
Diversified
Specialized farming
Income is earned by
Producing one type of crop
.................
or
Rasing one type of live stock
on one farm
Diversified farming
Income earned by
variety of crops
.............
or
Variety o flivestock
on one farm
Subsistence farming
people grow enough food for them and their family only to survive
Subsistence farming devied into categories
shifting cultivation
intensive crop cultivation
nomadic herding
shifting cultivation occurs mainly in
tropical areas
shifting cultivation is when
Larger sections of forests are slashed and burned
burning releases nutrients stored in forests biomass
how long does shifting cultivation use land to grow crops
and hpw long regeneration takes place
until land has lost its nutrients takes only couple of years
10-30 years
Intensive crop cultivation
countries were amount of land available for agriculture is scarce
land has to produce larg amount of food
this type of agriculture is very labour intensive and can become very costly
Nomadic herding
grasslands are not bery fertile
families travel from one location to another with their herds
Crops divided into
Cereals
Oilseeds
Forage
fruit and vegtibles
specialty crops
Author
sim11r
ID
127834
Card Set
Agriculture
Description
gro agriculture
Updated
1/14/2012, 11:13:17 PM
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