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The document discusses agricultural systems and food production. It covers factors that affect agricultural land use including physical, social, economic, and political factors. It also discusses intensive and extensive agricultural production, providing wet rice cultivation and dairying as case studies. The management of agricultural change is examined, including intensification, extensification, and reasons for change such as government policy, population pressure, and profit motivation. Organic farming is mentioned as well as a case study on agriculture in South Africa.
The document discusses agricultural systems and food production. It covers factors that affect agricultural land use including physical, social, economic, and political factors. It also discusses intensive and extensive agricultural production, providing wet rice cultivation and dairying as case studies. The management of agricultural change is examined, including intensification, extensification, and reasons for change such as government policy, population pressure, and profit motivation. Organic farming is mentioned as well as a case study on agriculture in South Africa.
The document discusses agricultural systems and food production. It covers factors that affect agricultural land use including physical, social, economic, and political factors. It also discusses intensive and extensive agricultural production, providing wet rice cultivation and dairying as case studies. The management of agricultural change is examined, including intensification, extensification, and reasons for change such as government policy, population pressure, and profit motivation. Organic farming is mentioned as well as a case study on agriculture in South Africa.
-Agriculture as a system –input, output and processes.
Factors affecting agricultural land use and practises
Main factors to be covered are physical (land/relief, soil, climate, hazards), social (e.g. population pressure, cultural practices, inheritance laws, education, health), economic (e.g. motive, money/capital, labour force, distance from market), and political (e.g. government policy, NGO assistance, aid, debt). Think about positive and negative factors.
INTENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION:
TWO CASE STUDIES: wet rice cultivation and Dairying.
THE MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL CHANGE
-INTENSIFICATION AND EXTENSIFICATION
-CHANGE BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT POLICY, EXTERNAL FACTORS;
POPULATION PRESSURE, PROFIT MOTIVATION OR CLIMATIC CHANGE.
0RGANIC FARMING
NEED OF CHANGE, DIFFICULTIES FACE, MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND