Question

name of few economic factors that influence agriculture

Answer 1

Human factors that influence agricultural use include: Population size leads to larger areas of cultivation and competitio for land. Farmingtechniques. In developed countries, modern techniques, which include mechanisation and fertilizers, have increased production.

Answer 2

ECONOMIC FACTORS :

Size of land holding :------ The size of farms affect the agricultural pattern and the yield per unit hectare, in the densely populated areas of the developing countries the farm size is generally very small due to growing rural population and the law of succession which leads to the fragmentation of land, the small fields are mostly not economical.

Labour :------- The availability of liver has great influence on cropping patterns of a region, the labour requirement varies with different crops. In many parts of India, seasonal unemployment exist in rural areas, whereas during the periods of sowing and harvesting, there could be shortage of labour. The farmers of Punjab greatly depend on migrant labourers for growing wheat and rice crops.

Capital :-------- All agricultural inputs, like the HYV seeds, means of irrigation, fertilisers, pesticides, hiring labour, machines, land lease, fodder, fuel, power and vertinity services, require capital. The cultivation of the commercial crops using new technologies requires the more capital then required in the traditional way of cultivation.