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Australia uses largest portion of its Area for

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Answered by VineetaGara
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Australia uses largest portion of its Area for

PASTURES

1.Pastures play a major role in agricultural enterprises and contribute over $3 billion annually.

2. It contributes in Western Australia through animal production, improvements to crop rotations and conserved fodder.

3.In a typical year pastures occupy up to half the land in low to medium rainfall areas and over two thirds of the land in high rainfall areas.

4. Improved pastures are increasingly being used to play a more comprehensive role in farming systems to address emerging challenges for environment protection and food production.

Answered by bratislava
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Australia uses largest portion of its Area for Grazing.

Explanation:

  • The landmass of Australia has a wide geographic region and it ranges from the snow-capped mountains to the alps and to large deserts of the tropical and the temperate forests.  
  • It consists of an area of 7,686,850 km sq. Being the lowest, flattest, and the oldest continental landmass it has no active volcanism and has a terrain of mostly of low plateau and deserts and rangelands.
  • In Australia, about 63% of the land area has been modified by human land use, mostly for grazing purposes and has occurred due to the clearing of the natural grasslands, forests.
  • The sheet and cattle grazing has led to soil erosion, an increase of salinity, and issues in water quality.

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