Question

Depending upon geographical factors and level of technology used, farming can be practised in different methods across the world. Give your inputs on the farming methods.

Answer 1

Answer:

Agriculture and farming methods vary in different parts of the world depending on the geographical conditions.

Explanation:

• With the development of technology, people had=ve started using different techniques and methods to produce crops fast.
• New technologies have been introduced to grow crops in water and are known as hydroponics and aquaculture.
• It's a technological process of growing plants in jars full of nutrient solutions.  

Answer 2

Farming is the basic activity for livelihood.

Explanation:

• Depending upon the geographical factors and level of technology used, farming can be practiced in different methods across the world.

• It includes not only the cultivation of crops but also the different innovations and technology for it.
• Different types of farming practiced in different regions of the world
• Nomadic Herding practiced in Northern Africa, parts of Arabia, and parts of Northern Eurasia.
• This type of farming is predicated upon the rearing of animals on natural pastures.
• Shifting Cultivation also known as subsistence farming, where a plot of land has been cultivated for a few years until the crop yield declines due to soil exhaustion and the effects of pests and weeds.
• It is practiced by tribes of tropical Africa, tropical South and Central America, and in south-east Asia.
• Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
• This type of farming is employed in various regions like:- Tonking Delta (Vietnam), lower Menem (Thailand); lower Irrawaddy (Myanmar); and therefore the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta, Eastern Coastal Plains (India).
• Commercial Dairy Farming, used in Denmark and Sweden and they have witnessed the maximum development of this type of farming.
• Commercial Grain Cultivation
• It practiced in the Eurasian steppes in regions of chernozem soil, Canadian and American Prairies, the Pampas of Argentina, the Veld of South Africa, the Australian Downs, and the Canterbury Plain of New Zealand.
• Mixed Farming
• This type of agricultural system is found in the highly developed parts of the world: north-western Europe, eastern North America, Russia, Ukraine, and the temperate latitudes of parts of the southern continents.