AP HUG Unit 5 Climates for Different Agriculture Practices

Market Gardening/Truck Farming

Moderate Climates like Mediterranean

Plantation

Tropical and Subtropical

Mixed Crop/Livestock Systems

Humid Continental and Semi-arid (Cold and Dry)

Paddy Rice Agricultural

Humid Tropical and Subtropical (Monsoon Coasts)

Grain Agriculture

Humid, Continental, Semi-arid

Livestock Fattening (Feedlots)

Humid Continental and Humid Subtropical

Dairy Farming

Everywhere except for tropical wet, dry zones, and arid zones

Shifting Cultivation (Slash and Burn)

Tropical (Hot year-round and rains a lot)

Nomadic Herding

Aird or Semi-arid (Up North = Cooler and Wetter)

Livestock Ranching

Semi-arid (Cooler and Wetter for Sheep)

Mediterranean

Mediterranean (Dry summers and Mild/Moist Winters)