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Pastoral nomandism
People(most probably farmers) travel place to place in drylands like in drylands like north africa
Shifting cultivation
farmers form tropical climates move from field to field
Plantation
A large commercial farm for one crop usually in tropical areas
Mixed crop/Livestock farming
crops that mainly fed to livestock to fatten them up and use their waste as fertilizer
Grain farming
Growing wheat in dry places
Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado grow what type of wheat?
These three states grow winter wheat (planted in the fall picked in the summer)
Montana, South dakota, north dakota, and parts of canada grow ___ wheat.
These states grow Spring wheat, planted in spring picked in fall.
______ are the worlds top producers in wheat
China india and russia...
Commercial gardening/market gardening/truck farming
Products usually for canning or freezing, lettuce, tomatos, broccolis, oranges and apples.
a consequence of dairy farming
dairy production increases while the number of farms decrease
Mediterranean agriculture
practiced in regions with hot dry summers and mild winters in narrow valleys, figs and olives are grown.
Transhumance
the seasonal herding of animals in a confined specific area
This agricultural region often practices Transhumance
Mediterranean agriculture often practices...
Live stock ranching
commercial grazing of animals a confined specific area
Extensive farming includes...
nomadic herding, ranching and shifting cultivation
Intensive land use
involves greater input of capital/paid labor in relation to the intensive farming of that area.
Double cropping
the planting and harvesting on the same land twice a year
inter-cropping
farmers grow two or more crops simultaneously on the same field
agribusiness
the fusing of various types of production in the food processing industry
Supply chain
The system of producer transportstion, communication train, resources, and consumers.
Mono culture
Raising a single cash crop on large areas of land
Suitcase farm
Farmers who live nearby work there but dont live there
Commodity chain
a process used by corporations to gather reasources and then transform them into good to seel to consumers
Luxury crops
Expensive tropical foods that arent neccissary for survivial
Neocolonialism
the use of economic, political and social pressures to control former colonies.
fair trade movement
A movement that tries to create awareness of the disparity between high incomes and low incomes in develope dand developing countries and promote higher incomes for more sustainable farming practices
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