What are the geographical types of agriculture?

There are six main geographical types of agriculture in the world: rice cultivation, large pasture grazing, plantation agriculture, commercial grain agriculture, mixed agriculture, and dairy farming.

1, migratory agriculture is an ancient, relatively primitive agricultural production methods, this type of farming does not have a fixed farmland, arable land is selected in the forests and grasslands of the lush areas, farmers through the cutting, burning, in the forest to clear a land, with primitive methods of planting crops.

2, monsoon paddy agriculture is a unique type of agriculture in humid tropical and subtropical regions. It is mainly concentrated in the monsoon areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the tropical rainforest areas of Southeast Asia. Monsoon paddy agriculture is a need to invest a lot of labor intensive farming intensive agriculture.

3, plantation agriculture is a large-scale intensive commercial agriculture in the tropics growing a single cash crop, widely distributed in Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

4, commodity grain agriculture is the world's main geographical type of production of commodity food, is a market-oriented type of agriculture, planting crops to wheat and corn-based.

5, ranching is a large-scale commercial livestock production of agricultural geographic type. This kind of agriculture is often distributed in arid and semi-arid climate zones, sparsely populated, the surface is mainly grassland vegetation, and thus the formation of large pasture grazing this type of agricultural region.

6, dairy livestock industry is with the development of the city and a market-oriented agricultural geographic type, the object of its production is dairy cows; products are mainly milk and its products, such as milk powder, butter and cheese. The proximity of markets and the availability of feed are two important factors affecting the production of dairy livestock.

7, mixed agriculture is a kind of in the same farm will be planting and animal husbandry organic combination of agricultural production geographical type.

8, nomadic pastoralism refers to the grazing of livestock based on a subsistence agriculture, typical of the rough agriculture, this mode of production is suitable for difficult to carry out sedentary agriculture in arid climatic areas.

9, horticulture is for the city to provide vegetables, fruits, flowers and other commercial agriculture. The rise and development of this type of agriculture is related to the accelerated rate of urbanization in the modern world.

10, Cereal Livestock Agriculture is a type of agriculture that combines the cultivation of dry-crop cereals with the raising of livestock.

Expanded Information

Migratory agriculture: when the fertility of the soil of this piece of land diminishes and plants can no longer be grown, the farmers give it up and go to develop another piece of land, so it is called migratory agriculture, which is prone to soil and water erosion and leads to the destruction of the ecological balance.

Asia's rice cultivation industry has the following characteristics, one is a smallholder operation, the second is a high yield per unit area but low commodity rate, the third is a low level of mechanization, the fourth is the amount of water conservancy projects, and the fifth is a low level of science and technology. The solution is to increase investment in science and technology, moderate expansion of planting scale and so on.

China's state-run rubber farms on Hainan Island, the form of production, although similar to the plantation, but the nature, scale, management and plantations are very different. Plantation agriculture is often engaged in large-scale production, the park has a complete set of production and living facilities, many plantations not only agricultural and transportation machinery, as well as the park's road system, agricultural product processing plants, agricultural machinery maintenance plants, power supply and water supply, as well as education and health facilities.

The world's dairy livestock industry is mainly distributed in North America around the Great Lakes region, Western and Central Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand, etc., China's Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities around the development of the dairy livestock industry, the product is mainly fresh milk.

Mixed agriculture is mainly distributed in Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, etc., China's Pearl River Delta pond production is a novel mixed agriculture.

Commodity grain agriculture region of crops in wheat is absolutely dominant, followed by barley, oats, rye, cereals, sorghum, maize, potatoes and other grain crops, legumes in soybean crops accounted for an important position, cash crops are cotton, tobacco, flax, hemp, sugar beet. Due to the arid climate and erratic rainfall, irrigation takes a very important place in order to ensure stable and growing yields.

In livestock breeding, India and West Asia is mainly cattle and sheep, in China is mainly pigs and cattle, sheep, horses, mules, donkeys in different areas of the number of how much varies, in addition to livestock for servitude, but also the main source of meat and hides, wool.

Mediterranean agriculture: the main crops are wheat and barley, followed by oats and corn, grapes, woody crops, olive and figs are widely planted cash crops in the region. Livestock reared include sheep, goats and pigs. So the combination of drought-tolerant crops, woody cash crops and livestock rearing characterizes agriculture in the Mediterranean region.

In the Mediterranean agriculture, agriculture, fruit trees and pastoral production of geographic space is separated from each other, planting food crops in most of the distribution of farmland in the flatlands and gentle slopes, vineyards and olive, figs planted in the hilly areas, the high hillside is the place of grazing. Due to the regional separation of livestock grazing and agriculture, stable manure cannot be used to replenish farmland with nutrients, and farmland mostly relies on fallow fields to restore its strength.

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