Agricultural Production Regions and Farming Practices

Refer to the textbook Chapter 10 Key Issues 1,2,3 + the Articles on Commercial Agriculture: Monocropping &
Intensive and Extensive Farming (The Economic Forces that Influence Agriculture) to complete the following chart*.
. **The information in the chart is not in the order as it appears in the readings!!
Learning Objectives:
• Agricultural practices are influenced by the physical environment and climatic conditions.
• The availability of resources influences agricultural practices and land-use patterns.
• Cultural practices influence agricultural practices and land-use patterns.
• Explain how economic forces influence agricultural practices.
• Explain the connection between physical geography and agricultural practices.
Type of Agricultural Practice Definition/Description Where is it found? W
(Climate Region &
Continent/Country)

Subsistence Agriculture
The production of food
primarily for consumption
for the farmer's family.
Found in dry climates and
tropical regions of South
Africa and Southeast Asia,
and dry lands of North Africa
and Asia
Food is produced ma
for the farmer's own
consumption (includ
maize)

Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
Often labor-intensive
production on small plots
Usually near densley
populated areas with access
to local markets
Farmers who grow
wide variety of crop
such as corn, caddav
or yams and raise
livestock.

Wet Rice Primarily the large populations Dry climates around East Rice
(Intensive Subsistence Agriculture) of concentrations and South Asia

Define: Paddy Paddy: Commonly but

Double Cropping
(Intensive Subsistence Agriculture)
incorrectly used to describe a
sawah. pasture. Grass or other
plants grown for feeding
grazing animals, as well as land
used for grazing.
The planting and harvesting of Double cropping was most Rice, wheat, maize
the same parcel of land twice common in the Northeast,
per year. Southeast, and Southwest
regions

Type of Agricultural Practice Definition/Description Where is it found? W

Crop Rotation Helps maintaint the fertility of a
(Intensive Subsistence Agriculture) feild because various crops
deplete the soil of certain
nutrients but restore others.
Commercial Agriculture Production of food primarily for
(Climate Region &
Continent/Country)
Central Africa and Southeast Oats, wheat, rye, or
Asia
Western United States, Commercial gardeni

Dairy The practice of rotating use of
(Commercial)
Define: Milkshed
Monocropping/ Monoculture
(Commercial)
Intensive Farming
(Refer to article on Canvas)
Type of Agricultural Practice
Market Gardening/
Fruit Farming/
Truck Farming
(Intensive Farming)
Plantation Farming
(Intensive Farming)
Mixed Crop and Livestock Farming
(Intensive Farming)
sale off the farm
different fields from crop to
crop each year, to avoid
exhausting the soil.
Milkshed: The ring surrounding
a city from which milk can be
supplied without spoiling
The deliberate cultivation of
only one single crop in a
large land area.
Large amounts of machinery,
often on large amounts of land
Definition/Description
Bartering or the exchange of
commodities
Are higly efficient large-scale
operations that take full
advantage of machines during
the growing process
A large farm that specializes in
one or two crops. Plantations
are usuallu situated in
sparsleylocations so th they
must import workers and
provide them with food,
housing, and social services
Most crops are fed to animals
rather than consumed directly
by humans. Livestock supply
manure to improve soil fertility
Mexico, Argentina, South fruits, vegetables, an
Africa, Australia, and Central plots of land.
Asia.
Large urban areas of Fresh Milk
Northeast United States,
Southeast Canada, and
Northwest Europe.
Monoculture is widely used Maize, soybeans, an
both in industrial farming
and in organic farming.
Usually near urban centers Truck farming and d
or transportation hubs
Where is it found? W
(Climate Region &
Continent/Country)
Southeast U.S. and Apples, asparagus. c
Southeast Austrailia The tomatoes
region has a long growing
season and a humid climate.
Humid Climate. Cotton, sugarcane, c
tropical and subtropical jute, bananas, tea, c
regions of Latin America,
Africa, and Asia.
U.S Midwest and Central beef, milk, and eggs
Europe. Warm to dry
climates
 to grow more crops. Devotes
nearly all land area to growing
crops but derrives more than
three-fourths of its income
from the sale of animal
products.
CAFO’s: Concentrated Animal Concentratied Animal
Feeding Operations Feeding Operations - is an
intensive animal feeding
(Intensive Farming) operation (AFO) in which
over 1000 animal units are
confined for over 45 days a
year.
Type of Agricultural Practice Definition/Description
Extensive Farming Agriculture that uses fewer
(Refer to article on Canvas) inputs of capital and paid
labor relative to the amount
of space.
Shifting Cultivation An area of ground is cleared of
(Slash and Burn) vegetation and cultivated for a
(Extensive Farming) few years and then abandoned
for a new area until its fertility
has been naturally restored
Nomadic Herding/ A form of subsistence agricultre
Pastoral Nomadism based on the herding of
(Extensive Farming) domesticated animals
Found anywhere in the Examples, cattle, chi
United Stanes, but mainly in
south America.
Where is it found? What is produced?
(Climate Region &
Continent/Country)
Near transportation centers Shifting cultivation, p
with access to processing ranching and grain fa
centers and in sparsley
populated areas with access
to local markets. Found
mostly in United States and
Europe. Warm to cold
climate.
Tropical regions of South Corn, millet, sorghum
America, Africa, and vegetables
Southeast Asia. Humid high
temperatures.
dry lands of North Africa and milk and animal hair
Asia
 Type of Agricultural Practice Definition/Description Where is it found? What is produced?
(Climate Region &
Continent/Country)

Transhumance milk, butter, cheese,

(Extensive Farming) A type of pastoral nomadisim, a Found in the Middle Eastern
seasonal movement of region in dry climates
livestock between fixed
summer and winter pastures

Ranching drylands western United Cattle

(Extensive Farming) The commercial grazing of States, southeasterm South
livestock over an extensive area America, Central Asia,
southern Africa and
Austrailia

Mediterranean Agriculture lands surrounding the Cereals, wheat for b

Borders a sea and most are on Mediterranean Sea, Western olives.
west coasts of continents and U.S. and Chile
sea winds provide moisture and
moderate the winter
temperatures