TYPES OF CROP FARMING

DRY IRRIGATION FARMING
1. Crops are watered by:
  1. Precipitation
2. Lower yields
IRRIGATION FARMING
1. Crops are watered from:
  1. Aquifers
  2. Rivers
  3. Reservoirs
    1. System of Channels
2. Higher yields
INTENSIVE FARMING
1. Land produces very high yields
  1. Several crops a year using:
    1. Greenhouses
    2. Irrigation
    3. Fertilisers
EXTENSIVE FARMING
1. Land is left fallow
2. Crop yields depend on investment in:
  1. Mechanisation
  2. Fertilisers
POLYCULTURE
1. Agrucultural areas are ivided in plots
  1. Typical System
    1. Low Productivity
2. Traditional Agriculture
  1. Self-sufficiency
MONOCULTURE
1. Highly specialised
  1. Single product
    1. Large Area
  2. Tropical Plantations
    1. Coffee
    2. Bananas
    3. Tea
  3. Extensive Dry Farming Crops
    1. Grapes
    2. Cereals
2. Crops Yields depend on:
  1. Mechanisation
  2. Technological Development

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