AP Human Geography / Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
5.6 Agricultural Production Regions
Notes
- Subsistence: grow food for the family. Commercial: grow for sale.
- Commercial examples: grain farming, ranching, mixed crop/livestock, dairy, plantation, Mediterranean, market gardening.
Practice
Large farms growing coffee for export in the tropics are:
Commercial export crops.
Growing food only to feed one's family is:
Own consumption.
Olives, grapes and citrus are typical of:
Dry summers, mild winters.
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