Types of Agriculture
Focusing on the main things that you should remember about these different types of Agriculture. Where these different forms of agriculture used around the world.
- Pastoral Nomads
- Shifting Cultivation
- Intensive Subsistence Farming ( Wet Rice)
- Plantation Farming
Pastoral Nomads
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Farmers depend on animals not crops for food.
Nomadic people located in dry lands of developing regions.
Typically found in poor countries around North Africa, Parts of Asia, and the Middle East.
Do not wander randomly across the landscape.
Seen as between hunter and gathers and sedentary farmers.
Animals that typically used: camels, Goats, Sheep and Horse.
The first type here is Pastoral Nomads. So, it's a form of substance agriculture and substance. Agriculture remember not producing food to make money or to sell but it's being produced to sustain a community or a family.
You're producing it for the farmer for themselves or for the people there but you're not trying to make money on it we're not focusing on maximizing our profits. So, that's a big part of substance agriculture you will need to for sure understand.
You're producing it for the farmer for themselves or for the people there but you're not trying to make money on it we're not focusing on maximizing our profits. So, that's a big part of substance agriculture you will need to for sure understand.
The pastoral nomads are based on herding domesticated animals so we're not just randomly following animals. We have domesticated animals we have kind of group this form of Agriculture does not rely on crops for food so. If they do have different crops in their diet normally that's from them trading.
Shifting Cultivation
Shifting cultivation farming is also a type of agriculture. Form of subsistence agriculture, practiced in tropical climate regions. Also known as Slash and Burn Agriculture.
Region typically has temperatures and lots of rain. This form of agriculture is practice by roughly 250 million people around the world.
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Located primarily in South America, central and West Africa, and Southeast Asia.
- Process of Shifting Cultivation.
- Identify Land that will be used.
- Cut down all tress/shrubs that are not going to benefit you economically.
- Burn the land and let the ashes go into the soil.
- Plant Crops until land is no longer fertile.
- Find new land and repeat.
Shifting cultivation it's a form of substance agriculture and this is practice in tropical climate regions. So, regions that this is going to be practice have high temperatures lots of rain.
Sometimes the rain forest is a particular area where this is practice lot in right now around the world we've about 250 million people practicing this and this form of Agriculture is viewed in multiple different ways.
Some people a lot of controversy with this one of is it sustainable is it going to deplete the rain forests and there's a lot of studies and research for this video. There are located primarily in South America, Central and West Africa and also Southeast Asia.
Intensive Subsistence Farming (Wet Rice)
Intensive subsistence farming is also a type of agriculture. A form of subsistence farming, people must produce large amount of food with limited land and resources. Located primarily in East Asia.
Most work is done by hand, farmers are always trying to maximize their yield by wasting virtually no land.
Farmers have small amounts of land, tropically due to land being passed down between children.
Roads and paths are kept very small to make sure land is used for farming.
Animals kept in separate areas to make sure that they do not damage the land.
Intensive substance farming kind of focusing on wet rice and this is a form of substance farming that people have to produce large amounts of food with limited land and resources.
And that's because it's very delicate work we don't have a lot of resources poor communities and all so we're trying to maximize our yield.
So, the farmers are always trying to maximize their yield by not wasting virtually no land so I do everything they can to use their land for just production of crops.
The farmers have small amount of land here and the reason that is because a lot of times with families they'll pass land down to children so as you keep having children it keeps getting divided so we'll see a lot of land very close together with multiple different families and communities farming on it.
Plantation Farming
Plantation farming is also a type of agriculture. Large commercial farms in developing countries that focus on one or two crops.
Generally operated by developed countries and located in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Many time we see migrant workers in this type of farming, or workers that immigrated to the area because of incentives given to move to work.
This is because locations are more remote.
Most common products grown.
- Cotton
- Sugarcane
Plantation farming so a little bit different than the others however they are located in developing countries a difference here though is they are generally operated by developed countries.
So, North America European countries they traditionally own and operate these plants and then they're located in places like Latin America Africa and Asia.
Plantation farms focus on entirely one crop or possibly two so they do mass production and the goal here is to produce it for so cheap that the transportation costs of sending these goods to the developed countries.
Don't really impact their profits that much so a lot of times we'll see migrant workers here they'll try to entice workers to come by offering maybe housing or food workers do not get paid a lot who are doing this type of agriculture.
Because production has to be kept the cost low and these areas the reason why we have people
You can also ready article in Wikipedia about types of agriculture
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