5.6 Agricultural Production Region

Subsistence Agriculture (Find Definition)

Farming done with the intent to feed the farmer’s family consumptions

Subsistence Agriculture

• Use less machinery

• Smaller landsize

• More labor

• Less developed nations

Commercial ($$) Agriculture (Find Definition)

Farming with the intent to sell the crop for profit

Commercial ($$) Agriculture

• Heavy machinery

• Uses lots of land

• Less human labor

• More developed rations

Extensive Subsistence Agriculture

• Less labor and capital

• Lots of land

• Grown far from city

• Pastoral nomadism

Intensive Subsistence Agriculture

• Small Land

• Lots of labor

• Terrance farming - rice in SE Asia

Extensive commercial ($$) Agriculture

• Lots of land

• Cattle ranching

• Far from city

Intensive commercial ($$) Agriculture

• Less land

• Lots of capital, high tech machines

• More labor

• Located close to market (city)

• Dairy farming

Big Rent Theory:

Says the price of land is related to the distance from the city (market)

Big Rent Theory reasons

• Further away from the city - price of land drops

• Explains why intensive agriculture is further from the city and intensive is close to the city

• Goes with Von Thumen model

Monocropping (Find Definition)

Planting one crop year after year

Monocropping

• Done to maximize profit

• Farmer specializes and becomes efficient

• Can duplicate the soil but made green evolution tech can replenish (fertilizer)

Monculture

Planting one crop at a time but may plant and the crop at a different time during the year