Unit 4: Agriculture - Selection of Species for Cultivation 2
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- Selection of Species for Cultivation
- Social Factors
- Cultural factors - traditions e.g. horse meat
- Religious factors - dietary restrictions
- Ethical issues - fair trade, free range, organic
- Land Ownership Pattern
- Tenant farmers (rent) - less incentive to improve production systems
- Farm size - smaller farms have lower profitability to harder to improve
- Some countries divide farmland to dead children while others eldest gets it all
- Politics
- State control - some governments increase output using control of commercial agriculture
- Financial support and subsidies e.g. tax reductions on fuel
- Quotas - prevents overproduction of certain items
- Economic Factors
- Market demand - makes it difficult for farmers to predict income, damaging investment
- Subsidies, incentives and grants - helps cover production costs
- Price support systems - encourages farmers to grow more by guaranteeing to buy excess
- Labour supply - rural depopulation and low farm wages make it hard to get workers
- Labour costs - high labour costs or shortages means more mechanised production
- Capital availability and interest costs - difficulty in borrowing money means difficulty in improving production systems
- Technology
- Transport infrastructure - possible to produce in areas with no local demand
- Low fuel costs - transport costs are lower
- Mechanisation - allows large scale processing, agrochemical spreading and harvesting
- Fertilisers - haber process allows synthetic nitrate fertilisers, but with high costs
- Irrigation - abstraction, transport and application allows crop growth in dry areas
- Fuel supplies - energy intensive production only possible with readily available fuel
- Seeds and livestock - increased productivity by cultivating high yielding crops
- Social Factors
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