Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mezzogiorno - Primary
Activities
- Farming
- 20% work in
farming
- Climate
- Sirocco
- Spring - damages buds and
foliage
- Rainfall
- Drought in
summer
- Drought-resistant
crops
- East gets
900mm
- irrigation
used
- citrus/grapes
- Sicily prodices 2/3 of Italy's citrus
fruits
- expensive to
install
- Relief
- 85%
mountaineous
- poor grass
growht
- Mainly goat and
sheep farmers
- prevents the use are
large machinery
- Soils
- thin and
infertile
- farming mainly on
naturally fertile
ground
- Volcanic
Soils
- Alluvial Soils
- eliminates cost of
buying expensive
fertilisers
- growing tourist market has led to a demand for fresh
produce
- Fishing
- high coastal
population
- Mediterranean not rich in
fish
- tuna,
sardines
- pollution limits growth of
plankton
- west- most towns have fishing
ports
- Salerno
- EU Quotas pose
problems
- limited the
development if the
industry