5. Types of Farming – Global General Knowledge Specialisation Arable Pastoral Mixed Economic Status: Commercial farming Subsistence farming Intensity of Land Use: Extensive Intensive Political Organic What do all of these produce? Sugar cane in Brazil Plantation agriculture Sahara Desert Unsuitable Nile Valley, California Irrigation Southern Italy Mediterranean agriculture Netherlands Mixed farming Canadian Prairies Cereal cultivation Beef on the Pampas Livestock ranching (commercial pastoral) Rice farming in the Ganges Delta Intensive subsistence agriculture Amerindians in Amazonia Shifting cultivation Maasai in Kenya Nomadic herding Aborigines, Australia Nomadic Hunting Example Type of Farming
6. Factors Affecting Farming Human Factors Government aid Fertiliser Mechanisation Marketing Size of farm Competition for land Relief Temperature Physical Factors Soils Rainfall
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12. Factors affecting the location of secondary industries What is needed? Land Raw materials Energy Transport/communications (links) Labour Market Environment Capital
