Basic Agricultural Concepts

Question 1

Define the term Agriculture

Answer 1

The science and practice of farming including the cultivation of soil and the rearing of livestock

Question 2

Define the term Primary Economic Activity

Answer 2

Those that extract and harvest from the Earth

Question 3

Define the term subsistence farming

Answer 3

When the farmer only farms for themselves and their families and sometimes locally

Question 4

Explain intensive and extensive subsistence farming

Answer 4

Intensive: Farming that involves large areas of land and little labour. Eg Herding
Extensive: Farming that involves small plots of land and tool with alot of labour reqired Eg Gardening

Question 5

Define the term Commercial Agriculture

Answer 5

Farm economies where production is primarily for markets and supplying for a profit.

Question 6

Explain intensive and extensive commercial farming

Answer 6

Intensive: farming that involves large inputs of labour/money relative to the size of the farm
Extensive : Farming that happens far away from the market as less expensive land where there is less need to use land intensively.