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Agricultural Geography

Agricultural Geography. Cultural Geography C.J. Cox. Chapter 9 Overview. Agricultural Geography Agricultural Hearth Areas Physical and Cultural Factors Influencing Agricultural Production Subsistence vs Commercial Agriculture Agricultural Trends.

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Agricultural Geography

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  1. Agricultural Geography Cultural Geography C.J. Cox

  2. Chapter 9 Overview • Agricultural Geography • Agricultural Hearth Areas • Physical and Cultural Factors Influencing Agricultural Production • Subsistence vs Commercial Agriculture • Agricultural Trends

  3. Geographer’s Perspective of World Agriculture • Geographers are interested in the patterns and distribution of agriculture in the world today. • What are the patterns of agriculture worldwide? • Why are agricultural areas distributed in the manner that they are?

  4. Agriculture • Agri - Latin for field • culture - to cultivate • The expanded definition of Agriculture includes the cultivation of plants and animals • The goal of agriculture is produce sufficient food supplies

  5. Physical Factors • Land/Soil (fertility) • Water (precipitation & rivers) • Sun ( temperature, evaporation rates) • Climate

  6. Cultural Factors • Population Distribution • Diet of population • calorie supply, protein, health • Living Material • clothes, houses • Lifestyle/Cultural Tradition • nomadic, sedentary/rain dances • Economics • cash crops with greatest profit ie. viticulture • Government/Political Policies • Argentina wheat, Japan rice

  7. Agricultural Hearth Areas • Indus River in Pakistan • Mesopotamia in Iraq • Huang Ho in China • Nile River in Egypt

  8. Vegetative Planting Southeast Asia West Africa Northwestern South America Seed Agriculture western India northern China Ethiopia Southern Mexico northwestern South America Agricultural Hearth Areas

  9. Subsistence produced for consumption work by hand most people work shifting agriculture nomadic herding rice (intensive subsistence) plantation agriculture Commercial produced for market mechanized few laborers livestock & ranching horticulture dairy farming mixed crop grain medditeranean Forms of Agriculture

  10. Agricultural Trends • Hand Labor Mechanization • Small Plots Large corporately owned holdings • No fertilizers natural fertilizers chemical fertilizers • Natural Seed Production Hybrid Seeds • Farm to family Farm to processing to supermarkets • Nature controlled water man controlled water

  11. Chapter 9 Overview • Agricultural Geography • Agricultural Hearth Areas • Physical and Cultural Factors Influencing Agricultural Production • Subsistence vs Commercial Agriculture • Agricultural Trends

  12. Agricultural Geography Cultural Geography C.J. Cox

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