What are the types of agriculture in different parts of world?

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What are the types of agriculture in different parts of world?

Answer 1

There are really only a few "types" of agriculture.

In third world countries (Africa, South America, India, and parts of asia) there is what's called "Subsitance farming."  This where the farmers grow only enough for themselves, and have little excess production for sale to others.

In some areas farming is done by utilizing the help of animals (mules, horses, oxen, etc.) and augmented with various forms of irrigation--that is that the natural rainful is insufficient to support a healthy crop.  With the use of animals though, a farmer can usually produce a surplus (more than his family needs) and can sell the excess crop to others.

And then, in industrialized countries (US, Europe, Australia) farming is done by mechanized equipment (tractors, combines, etc.) using fertilizers to increase yields.  Quite often the farmers in industrialized countries will also use irrigation as a means of insuring adequate water supplies.

Answer 2

there is commercial agriculture as prac ticed in most developed countries,community agriculture as practiced in some states like Israel and some eastern europe states and subsistence agriculture as practiced in the developing countries

Answer 3

Agriculture is dependent on climate and means (to include politics) and is not delineated by political borders (countries) except in respect to means in certain special instances; two countries side by side, one with a larger capital base than the other.

Climate determines what can be grown, to include the micro-climates, mountain, desert, coastal. One may not have an orange grove in Chicago Illinois but may grow wheat near there. One may not grow wetland rice in mountains near Lima Peru but may grow coffee and coca. Year round tomatoes are found as old vines producing year round in Iraq but here on Cape Cod Massachusetts we rush our tomato plants out in the spring for a good single harvest before it gets cold.

Means determines what may be grown. In a country with a good economic base and a lot of financial incentive, many products are grown in bulk even in some pretty precarious places. That orange grove not suited for Chicago is only marginal in Florida, the very edge of it's zone and is only possible by the grace of God and crop insurance. Even with that, the price makes it a reward even in the frosty bad years when there are loses. Peru will grow some rice in it's Northern lowlands but it will always need to import the bulk of it, and lean instead toward producing potatoes and grain corn which are more cultural. There is little incentive or finance to invest in rice which would do poor and is not culturally a necessity for the most. The money crop is coca and is mainly a wild cultivation requiring very little input from a "farmer" and causes social and political issues; the drug trade. The same is true in places like Pakistan and the region where the opium poppy is king and the big money is available for a semi wild indigenous crop (requiring little input also). Some parts of the world, especially the older, overgrown tropical areas have poor soils, a high population, and little or no government assistance to farmers who live themselves on the edge of poverty. Slash and burn tactics will tranform jungle to farmland that will only produce a couple of crops before it is useless and farmers move on to let urban sprawl take over the dead land which was a valued jungle or old growth forest, now lost forever while the environment continues to suffer the repercussions of raising global temps and loss of biodiversity. Government does not have the means to protect it and assist the farmers and requires outside intervention (we will help you save the old growth forest and teach your farmers if you stop burning the forests, and by the way you have to let us stop the cocaine traffic thru your country or no deal!). Such is life on earth.