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Approach to the study of agriculture geography

1. APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF AGRICULTURE GEOGRAPHY Commodity, Systematic, regional and systems . Name - Nitika M.Sc. 1styear Class roll no - 02 Uni..roll no- 23572038 Submitted to – Mr. Sandeep sir

2. CONTENT What is Agriculture? What is Agriculture Geography? Objectives Significance Approaches Reference

3. AGRICULTURE The term agriculture is derived from to Latin word ager or agri meaning “Soil” and cultura meaning “cultivation” . The agriculture is an applied science which encompasses all aspects of crop production inducing horticulture, livestock rearing fisheries etc . DEFINATION “The term agriculture is defined as an art science and business of producing crops and livestock for economic purposes”.

4. AGRICULTURE GEOGRAPHY The definition of agricultural geography given by “ Benneh ” (1972) seems most appropriate. According to him, “Agricultural geography can be defined as a branch of geography which is related to the spatial distributions of agricultural phenomena such as agricultural methods and crops and those distributions are explained in the context of the interactions of various factors of the physical and cultural environment.” Agricultural geography can be defined as a systematic science Can be done under which the production status of an area and crop distribution pattern (regional and temporal) are studied in the context of cause-effect and action area interrelationships.

5. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The following are the objectives of study of agriculture geography:- To measure and examine the level of differences between regions.
To identify weak areas from the point of view of agricultural productivity. To delimit the areas of agricultural stagnation, transition, dynamism, poverty, equality and prosperity. To understand the development of specific types of agriculture in specific areas and their similarities and dissimilarities. To illuminate the direction and extent of changes taking place in agriculture. To demarcate crop production areas or cropping areas or agricultural enterprise areas.

6. SIGNIFICANCE The study of agricultural geography is very important because it evaluates agricultural activity scientifically. It provides us basic information regarding crop production, crop diversity, yield per unit area, etc. In countries with agricultural economies, mapping of agricultural resources and land use plays a very important role in planning the country’s resources.
Agricultural geography is important because it provides guidance and support to decision makers and is useful to agricultural experts, food economists, irrigation engineers, regional planners, transportation engineers, demographic planners, and many other specialists.

7. APPROACHES TO THE STUDY Dualism is inherent in the nature of agricultural geography. Because in this the dual elements – human and his environment are studied from a spatial perspective. According to Ilbery (1979), two main approaches are prevalent in agricultural geography :

8. EMPIRICAL OR INDUCTIVE APPROACH The empirical approach attempts to describe what actually exist in the agriculture landscape. It gives special privilege to empirical observations. In this approach explanation of the patterns is sought by inductive methods and generalizations are made on the basis of results from numerous studies.

9. NORMATIVE OR DEDUCTIVE APPROACH This approach leads to the derivation and testing of hypothesis and theoretically to the development of an ideal model of agriculture location The model of VON THUNEN in which have been made is based on deductive approach.

10. APPROACHES OF A.G Environmental or deterministic approach Commodity approach Economic approach Regional approach Systematic approach System analysis approach Ecological approach Behavioural approach

11. COMMODITY APPROACH It focuses on the point that any phenomenon of agriculture should be examined and explained in totality and not in parts to ascertain the ground reality about the decision making process of the farmers. The commodity approach is a colonial legacy. The focus of this approach remained to identify the regions which are more efficient in the production of certain crops . Criticism The commodity approach limits its subject area by limiting agriculture geography to the study of crops and animals.

12. REGIONAL APPROACH The concept of ‘region’ developed in the 18 th century is still a basic nation of geography. A country or an area is delineated into agricultural activity regions with the help of certain relevant agricultural indicators. The micro reasons constitute the micro regions which in turn become the components of macro regions. It provides an organized, systematic and reliable explanation of the agriculture phenomena spatially arranged over the Earth surface.

13. SYSTEMATIC APPROACH Also known as the ‘general’ or ‘universal’ approach. The concerned with the formulation of general laws theories and generic concepts It is in contrast to regional geography in which models are designed with the help of certain assumptions. An agriculture phenomenon (crop etc.) is examined and explained at the world level and then generalizations are made. The systematic and regional approaches to agricultural geography are however not opposed but complementary to each other.

14. SYSTEM ANALYSIS APPROACH System may be defined as a unit (agriculture and industry a business a state etc.)which functions as a whole because of the interdependence of its parts. A system consists of a set of entities with specifications of the relationship between them and their environment. It provides a framework to examine and explain the agriculture activities at the field village, local, regional National and global levels.

15. REFERENCE AGRICULTURE GEOGRAPHY,(MAJID HUSAIN) NOTES OF AGRICULTURE GEOGRAPHY AGRICULTURE GEOGRAPHY BY (ALKA GAUTAM) PK KNOWLEDGE YOU TUBE CHENNAL

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