GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Transhumance, Cotton Gin, Shifting Cultivation
16 Jul 2020
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Food production for local consumption- not for trade or sale. Some are confined to small fields- very likely they do not own the soil they till. Small fields-share cropper, low end money pull for agriculture. Can promote cohesiveness within society, share land, food surpluses, personal wealth is restricted. Subsistence farming is growing enough food for one person and their family. Lots of subsistence farms grow things like tomatoes, corn, potatoes, cucumbers, and spinach. Plantation farming is on a bigger scale than subsistence, but not yet commercial. Many plantations farm rubber, pine, spruce, and eucalyptus trees, oil palm, cotton, tea, and tobacco. Some are orchards, in which they would grow fruit, (that grow on trees). A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.
