Question

Where is commercial agriculture practiced?

Answer 1

Commercial agriculture is a large-scale production of crops for sale, intended for widespread distribution to wholesalers or retail outlets. Incommercial farming crops such as wheat, maize, tea, coffee, sugarcane, cashew, rubber, banana, cotton are harvested and sold in the world markets.

LOCATION:

The major world regions of commercial grain farming are shown in Figure 4.7. The largest one, in Eurasia, stretches from Kiew in southern Russia to Onsk in western Siberia in a width of about 1,000 km from Caucasus to Saratov on the Volga River.

In North America, there are several areas of commercial grain farming. The largest area runs from Alberta, through Saskatchewan and Manitoba to Dakotas. Another centre is in Kansas and spills over into neighbouring states. Smaller regions appear in eastern Washington and Oregon, eastern Illinois and northern Iowa.

In South America, Argentina has a large region of commercial grain farming. Australia has two areas, one in the south-west and another in the south-east. In fact, commercial grain farming is a mid-latitude activity and mostly done in between 30° to 55° N and S latitudes.