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On Agricultural Geography

Agricultural geography is the study of crop and animal farming, focusing on the spatial distribution and variation of agricultural activities and the factors influencing them. It addresses concerns such as food security, economic development, and the use of technology in agriculture. The field investigates various agricultural systems, their operations, and the relationships between the physical environment, socioeconomic factors, and agricultural productivity.

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On Agricultural Geography

Agricultural geography is the study of crop and animal farming, focusing on the spatial distribution and variation of agricultural activities and the factors influencing them. It addresses concerns such as food security, economic development, and the use of technology in agriculture. The field investigates various agricultural systems, their operations, and the relationships between the physical environment, socioeconomic factors, and agricultural productivity.

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INTRODUCTION

DEF:Came from Greek Geographia and Graphia


Which means the earth and to describe
And cultura meaning field
Nature of Agricultural geography

Agricultural geography is therefore best defined as a study of


crop and animal farming in the world
It involves a description of the spatial distribution and variation of
agricultural activities on earth’s space as well as the factors
(physical and human) determining the distribution
 an agricultural geographer attempts to answer the following
three questions.
 What type of agriculture is it?
 Where is it located?
 Why is it there?
Concerns of Agricultural geography

 Food security issues


 Role of agriculture in economic development

 Distribution and marketing of agricultural produce at local national


and international levels

 Use of modern technology to improve agricultural production

 Regional and international integration and its role in trade across


regions

Two things that distinguishes
agricultural geography
 Reliance on the physical environment and biological
processes

 Except for forestry and fishing, agriculture is the


only economic activity, in which extensive use of
the land is made.
 This explains why agricultural geographers usually
talk in terms of distribution rather than the location
of agricultural practices
Scope and Significance of Agricultural
Geography

 Geography involves investigations into spatio-temporal arrangement


and distribution of agricultural phenomena over the earth’s space. It
aims at:

 Describing the different types of world agriculture (e.g. shifting


cultivation, plantation agriculture, nomadism, horticulture farming,
livestock farming etc) and their function in spatial arrangement.

 Explaining physical and socioeconomic as well as cultural factors


influencing the distribution of agricultural types practiced in different
parts of the world.
Cont’

 Analyzing the operations of different types of farming systems (large


scale or small scale; intensive or extensive; commercial or subsistence).

 Explaining the type, volume and direction of changes that different


agricultural systems undergo.

 Measuring the levels of differences among agricultural regions

 Identifying and explaining weaker areas in terms of agricultural


productivity.

 Delimiting areas of agricultural dynamism, transition and stagnation.


Relationships in agricultural
geography

 Physical environment and agricultural operations or


attributes

 Socioeconomic or cultural ecology and agricultural


land use and productivity patterns; and

 Population distribution, and density; and the


available agricultural space or activities

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