Agriculture the science and art of cultivating the soil, raising crops and rearing livestock. It is also called farming. Census Official enumeration of population along with certain economic and social statistics in a given territory at some time interval.
Agriculture the science and art of cultivating the soil, raising crops and rearing livestock. It is also called farming. Census Official enumeration of population along with certain economic and social statistics in a given territory at some time interval.
Agriculture the science and art of cultivating the soil, raising crops and rearing livestock. It is also called farming. Census Official enumeration of population along with certain economic and social statistics in a given territory at some time interval.
The science and art of cultivating the soil, A method of farming adopted in certain regions Public road connecting distant places. Such raising crops and rearing livestock. It is of inadequate rainfall and devoid of irrigation a road of national importance is called the also called farming. facilities by conserving moisture in the soil national highway. and by raising drought-enduring crops. Balance of Trade Horticulture The difference between the total value of a Economic Geography Cultivation of vegetables and fruits; often on country’s exports and imports. An excess The aspect or branch of geography which small plots, involving higher intensiveness of export over import makes a favourable deals with the influences of the environment, than in field cultivation. balance of trade, and the converse an un- both physical and cultural, on the economic favourable balance. activity of man, bringing out similarities and Imports differences from place to place in the ways Goods brought into a country from another Barter people make a living. country. A direct exchange of excess produce between two parties to the mutual Environment Industrial Revolution advantages of both, without the use of Surroundings or the conditions under The change in manufacturing from hand- tokens, credit or money in the transaction. which a person or things exist and develop operated tools to power-driven machinery his or its character. It covers both physical began in England during the middle of the Census and cultural elements. eighteenth century. Official enumeration of population along with certain economic and social statistics in a Exports Industry given territory at some time interval. Goods despatched from one country to Systematic production characterised by another. division of labour and extensive use of Chemical Fertilisers machinery. Substance of natural or artificial origin Extensive Agriculture containing chemical elements such as Farming in which the amount of capital and Intensive Agriculture phosphorus, potassium and nitrogem that labour applied to a given area is relatively Farming in which large amounts of capital are necessary to plan life. They are added small. and labour are applied per unit area of to the soil for increasing its productivity. land, in order to obtain high yield. Fazenda Contour Ploughing A coffee plantation in Brazil. Inter Cropping Tilling or ploughing hillsides or sloping lands It is a practice of growing two or more crops along the contour lines, that is, around Foreign Exchange together on the same field in the same rather than up and down a slope mainly The mechanism or process by which season with a view to conserving soil and water. payments between any two places operating under different national currency International Trade Crop Rotation systems are effected without passing of Trade carried on between nations primarily Growing of different crops in succession actual money or gold, etc. to exchange their surpluses and make up on the same field from season to season to their deficits. maintain soil fertility Freeways The wide highways on which cross-roads Metropolis Dairy Farming are avoided by providing overhead links A very large city or agglomeration of A kind of agriculture in which major where one turns in only one direction to population in a district or a country, and is emphasis is on breeding and rearing milch ensure smooth and speedy traffic. often the chief centre or seat of some form cattle. Agriculture crops are raised mainly of activity— administrative, commercial or to feed these cattle. Harbour industrial. It generally serves a large An extensive stretch of deep water where hinterland. Density of Population vessels can anchor securely to obtain The average number of inhabitants living protection from sea and swell either through Mine within a specified unit of area, such as a natural features or artificial works. An excavation made in the earth for sq km. digging out minerals such as coal, iron-ore and precious stones. A mine usually practised mainly for subsistence, the Shifting Agriculture denotes underground working except in modern ranches present an example of A method of farming in which a patch of open-pit mines. commercial pastoralism. ground is cultivated for a period of few years until the soil is partly exhausted or Mineral Plantation Agriculture overrun by weeds, and after which the A substance that is found in the earth’s crust, A large-scale one-crop farming resembling land is left to natural vegetation while and which generally has a definite factory production. It is usually cultivation is carried on elsewhere. In due chemical composition unlike most rocks. characterised by large estate, huge capital course, the original patch of land is investment, and modern and scientific cultivated again when the natural growth Mineral Fuel techniques of cultivation and trade. has restored fertility. Non-metallic minerals such as coal and petroleum which are used as fuel. Port Subsistence Agriculture The commercial part of a harbour Farming in which its produce is mainly Mineral Oil containing facilities for embarking and consumed in the farmer’s household unlike A mixture of hydrocarbons in solid, disembarking passengers, loading and commercial agriculture whose products gaseous or liquid form found in the earth. It unloading, and some facilities for the storage enter into trade on a very large scale. is commonly known as petroleum. It became of cargo. a commercial product only in 1859. Transhumance Primary Activity A seasonal movement of herdsmen with Mineral Ore Activities concerned with collecting or their livestock and from and to the Metals in their raw state as extracted from making available materials, provided by mountains or between the regions of the earth. nature, for example, agriculture, fishing, differing climates. forestry, hunting or mining. Mining Transport An economic activity concerned with the Quarry The action of carrying persons and goods extraction of commercially valuable minerals An open-air excavation from which stone from one place to another. from the bowels of the earth. is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc. Truck Farming Mixed Farming Ranches Growing of vegetables around the urban A type of farming in which cultivation of crops Large stock farms, usually fenced in, where centres to meet the daily demand of the and raising of livestock go hand in hand. animals are bred and reared on a people is known as truck farming. It is Both these activities play an important part commercial scale. They are found governed by the distance a truck can cover in the economy. especially in the United States. overnight between the farm and the market.
Natural Resources Rotation of Crops Urbanisation
Wealth supplied by nature-mineral A systematic succession of different crops A general movement of people from small deposits, soil fertility, timber, fuel, water, on a given piece of land carried out in rural or agricultural communities or villages potential water-power, fish and wild life, etc. order to avoid exhaustion of the soil. to larger towns engaged in varied activities such as government, trade, transport and Nomadism Secondary Activity manufacture. It also indicates the A way of life of the people who are required Activities which transform the material concentration of an increasing proportion to shift their dwellings frequently from place provided by primary activities into of total population in towns and cities. to place in search of pastures for their commodities more directly useful to man. animals— the mainstay of their economy. Sedentary Agriculture Open-cast Mine Farming practised more or less A place where soil and its outward cover permanently on the same piece of land, are first removed and a mineral or ore is the same as settled agriculture. extracted by quarrying. In a way, it is a quarry on a large scale. This method of Shaft Mine mining is known as open-cast mining. An underground excavation made deep into the earth for digging minerals like coal, Pastoralism precious stones and iron. Such mines An economy that solely depends upon contain vertical and inclined shafts and animals. Whereas nomadic pastoralism is horizontal tunnels at various levels.