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5.2 What are the factors affecting agricultural production?

5.2 What are the factors affecting agricultural production?. Part A. They all come from agriculture. What is agriculture?. Where do these products come from?. Steak. Cotton swabs. Hide briefcase. Fruit salad. What is agriculture?.

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5.2 What are the factors affecting agricultural production?

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  1. 5.2 What are the factors affecting agricultural production? Part A

  2. They all come from agriculture. What is agriculture? Where do these products come from? Steak Cotton swabs Hide briefcase Fruit salad

  3. What is agriculture? Agriculture refers to the growing of crops or rearing of livestock by people for ______ and ______________. food raw materials There are five ways to classify agriculture. 1 Inputs-land ratio/Outputs-land ratio Agriculture 5 Level of technology

  4. What is agriculture? How to classify agriculture?

  5. What is agriculture? How to classify agriculture?

  6. How to classify agriculture? Shifting agriculture Let’s use the above criteria to classify the following types of agriculture. (Credit: Mark Edwards/Still Pictures)

  7. How to classify agriculture? Nomadic herding Nomadic herding in Kenya (Credit: Robin Hutton)

  8. How to classify agriculture? Wheat-sheep farming in south-east Australia (Credit: Nigel Dickinson/Still Pictures)

  9. How to classify agriculture? Rice cultivation in Indonesia (Credit: Morton Beebe/Corbis)

  10. How to classify agriculture? Vegetable growing in greenhouses (Credit: Biosphoto/Thiriet Claudius/Peter Arnold, Inc.)

  11. How to classify agriculture? Livestock rearing in South China (Credit: Sun Rixaun/FOTOE)

  12. What is a farming system? A farm can be viewed as a system, which has _______, ___________ and ________. inputs processes outputs Outputs Processes Inputs Cash Market Self-consumption

  13. In Part B, we will examine the factors affecting agriculture.

  14. Water Seeds Inputs of a farming system Physical inputs Arable farming Climate (e.g. temperature, rainfall) Land (including soil)

  15. Water Livestock Pasture Inputs of a farming system Physical inputs Pastoral farming Climate (e.g. temperature, rainfall) Land

  16. Inputs of a farming system Market Cultural inputs Labour Technology/ Capital Transport Government (Credit: Ng Kim Hung)

  17. Processes of a farming system Arable farming Irrigating Ploughing Weeding, fertilizing and pest control Sowing Harvesting

  18. Processes of a farming system Pastoral farming Breeding Sheep shearing Milking, feeding and processing dairy products Grazing

  19. Outputs of a farming system Useful outputs Useless outputs Sesame Useless parts of crops and animal manure Wheat Tomato Lettuce Beef Can you name a kind of waste which is harmful to the environment?

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