Factor influence Agriculture

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Factor influence Agriculture

• Social Factor

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Social Factor

• Affect the type of farming practice
• Affect the type of crop that could be grown
• Affect the ownership and inheritance of land

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Inheritance laws and fragmentation

• Inheritance laws
• Death of a farmer, his land is divided equally
  between his son.
• ( Rarely between daughters )
• Because dowry customs may include the giving
  of land with a daughter on marriage.
• Therefore, led to the sub-division of farms
  into numerous scattered and small fields.

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B. Fragmentation

• Farming conditions that two or more plots of land
  are separated from one another.
• Results from Inheritance laws which involved the
  division of property between heirs.
• Case In Britain, fragmentation of land
  result from the legacy of the open-field system.

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Results in Fragmentation

• Advantages
• enable a wider range of crops to be grown on
  land of different qualities
• .
• Disadvantages
• Much time being wasted in moving from one
  distinct field to another, and may cause problems
  of access.

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Farm sizes due to fragmentation

• Declines, only can operate at subsistence level
  or below.
• Case 1
• In most of the EU and North America, farm size is
  increase because of the competitive market
  capitalism.
• Small farms are purchased for enlargement by
  larger ad more efficient ,economically successful
  farms.
• They are capital intensive farm that use much
  machinery, fertilizers and have a wider choice on
  type of production.

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Case 2

• In SouthEast Asia and parts of Latin America and
  Africa, there are rapid expansion of population.
• Farms are already inadequate in size, but are
  being further divided and fragmentation, making
  them too small for mechanization.
• Therefore, increasing limited in the types
  production possible.

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Solution of Fragmentation ---- Consolidation

• The amalgamation of scattered plots into compact
  holdings around farmsteads.
• Applied in regions where fragmentation results in
  inefficient farming.
• Example In France ,farm consolidation was
  started in 1941, almost 7 million hectares of
  farmland have undergone reorganization.
• Advantages
• Enjoy canal irrigation.
• Gain maximum benefit by mechanization.

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Difficulties in practicing consolidation

• Case LDC e.g. India
• Farmers are poor.
• Land is scarce in India
• Farmers are still consider scattered holdings to
  be a form which against natural hazards and
  blight.

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The End
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