GEOG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Organic Fertilizer, Fish Migration, Crop Rotation
7 Aug 2016
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Industrialized agriculture/high-input agriculture- uses large amounts of fossil fuel energy, water, commercial fertilizers, and pesticides to produce single crops or livestock animals for sale. Plantation agriculture- is a form of industrialized agriculture primarily used in tropical developing countries. It involves growing cash crops (such as bananas, coffee, soybeans, etc. ) on large monoculture plantations, mostly for sale in developed countries. Traditional subsistence agriculture- typically uses mostly human labor and draft animals to produce only enough crops or livestock for a farm family"s survival. This is a very low input type which includes shifting cultivation and nomadic livestock herding. Traditional intensive agriculture- farmers increase their inputs of human and draft labor, fertilizer, and water to get a higher yield per area of cultivated land. They produce enough food to feed their families and to sell for income. Green evolution- a large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties.
