AP Human Geography / Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
5.1 Introduction to Agriculture
Notes
Agriculture depends on climate and environment.
- Intensive farming: lots of labor or capital on small land (market gardening, rice farming, plantations).
- Extensive farming: little input over large land (ranching, shifting cultivation, nomadic herding).
Practice
Nomadic herding in dry areas is:
Large area, low input.
Wet rice farming in Asia is:
Lots of labor.
Which climate factor most limits farming in deserts?
Aridity.
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