why lowlands are most suitable for cultivation than highlands??
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Low lands are flat and well irrigated. Over the centuries, the soil has received tons of fertile alluvions carried over by rivers, and it favors good yields.
Populations more easily settled in low lands and cities are usually there. It means that manpower farming is available and markets are nearby, reducing logistic issues.
On the contrary, high lands in many areas do not receive water for several weeks or months. When it rains, the water does not stay and tends to take good soil away with it. Irrigation is difficult because the soil is steep.
Access to high lands is difficult and less population choose to live there, as it is more difficult to make a living.
HOWEVER, volcanic high lands like can be found in many islands of Indonesia and Philippines (and also to some extend Taiwan and Japan) are much more fertile than nearby low lands.
That is because when they become active, volcanoes spread huge quantities of very fertile ashes on their slopes. It attracts huge populations to live there and grow very profitable crops. You will rarely see low-profit crops like sugar cane or cassava be produced there, but more often high-profit crops like corn, tobacco or vegetables. Rice is a bit in-between and is also grown there.
Volcanoes do make high lands more suitable for farming!
Populations more easily settled in low lands and cities are usually there. It means that manpower farming is available and markets are nearby, reducing logistic issues.
On the contrary, high lands in many areas do not receive water for several weeks or months. When it rains, the water does not stay and tends to take good soil away with it. Irrigation is difficult because the soil is steep.
Access to high lands is difficult and less population choose to live there, as it is more difficult to make a living.
HOWEVER, volcanic high lands like can be found in many islands of Indonesia and Philippines (and also to some extend Taiwan and Japan) are much more fertile than nearby low lands.
That is because when they become active, volcanoes spread huge quantities of very fertile ashes on their slopes. It attracts huge populations to live there and grow very profitable crops. You will rarely see low-profit crops like sugar cane or cassava be produced there, but more often high-profit crops like corn, tobacco or vegetables. Rice is a bit in-between and is also grown there.
Volcanoes do make high lands more suitable for farming!
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