MEDC Rural

MEDC Rural

Farming Types
1. What is grown
  1. Mixed
    1. Grow crops + rear animals
  2. Pastoral
    1. Farms rear animals
  3. Arable
    1. Farms grow crops
      1. barley, wheat and suagr
2. What we get out of them
  1. Commercial
    1. Produces food for themselves
  2. Subsitence
    1. Produces food for business only
3. What we put into them
  1. Intensive
    1. Intensive farming is when farms use lots of money, machines and technology
  2. Extensive
    Annotations:
    - Similar inputs and bigger area of land
    1. Similar inputs and bigger area of land
Market Town
1. Farmers that require equipment
  1. Fertilisers
  2. Machinery
  3. Seeds
2. Also require services
  1. Banks
  2. Accountants
  3. Machinery repairs
Rural Depopulation
1. Fewer jobs due to increased MECHANISATION
2. Fewer people working
  1. Fewer taxes being paid
3. Low paid jobs = low skilled jobs
Commercial Agriculture
1. Carried out to make a profit
2. Done by farmers who own a vast area of land
  1. This is extensive farming
    1. requires an enormous inputs of £££!

Resource summary

	Created by N D over 11 years ago