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Agriculture Origins and Regions: Origins of agriculture |
Hunters and gatherers Invention of agriculture |
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Location of agriculture hearths |
Vegetative planting seed agriculture |
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classifying cultural regions |
subsistence vs. commercial agriculture mapping agricultural regions |
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Agriculture means |
a deliberate modification of earths surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain. |
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The difference between subsistence and commercial agriculture |
the difference between those in less developed countries and those in more developed countries. |
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five principal features distinguish commercial form subsistence agriculture |
purpose of farming percentage of farmers in the labor force use of machinery farm size relationship of farming to other businesses |
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Agriculture in less developed countries: shifting cultivation |
characteristics of shifting cultivation future of shifting cultivation |
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Agriculture in less developed countries:
pastoral nomad-ism |
characteristics of pastoral nomadism based on the hearding of domestic animals future of pastoral nomadism |
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Agriculture in less developed countries:
Intensive subsistence agriculture |
Intensive subsistence with wet rice dominant Intensive subsistence with wet rice not dominant |
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World Rice production |
asian farmers grow over 90% of the worlds rice. India and china alone account for over half of world rice production |
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mixed crops and livestock farming |
is the most common form of commercial agriculture in the US west of the Appalachians and east of 98* west longitude and in much of europe from france to russia |
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agriculture in developed countries |
mixed crops and livestock system, dairy, grain farming, livestock ranching, commercial gardening and fruit farming, plantation farming |
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mixed crops characteristics |
most of these crops are fed to animals rather than consumed directly by humans |
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Truck farms grow |
grow fruits and vegetables, highly efficient large scale operations that take full advantage of machines at every stage of the growing process |
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Plantation farming |
a from of commercial agriculture found in the tropcis and subtropics especially in Latin America, Africa and asia, a large farm that specializes in one or two crops: cotton, tobacco cocoa jute bananas tea coconuts and palm oil |
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economic issues of commercial farmers |
access to markets overproduction sustainable agriculture |
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Economic issues of subsidence farmers |
population growth international trade |
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sustainable agriculture |
an agricultural practice that preserves and enhances environmental quality. |
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2 principle practices distinguish sustainable agriculture from conventional agriculture |
more sensitive land management better integration of crops and livestock |
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Drug Crops |
an export crop chosen by some low developed countries like latin america and asia. drugs plants like the coca leaf, marijuana, opium, hashish. |
