FarmingAims;What is farming?What processes are involved in farming?How does farming operate as a system?

Food and their origins- draw and plot on your world map!Cashew nuts - India

Chocolate – Ivory CoastMangoes – MalaysiaOranges – SpainBrazil nuts – BrazilKiwi fruit – New ZealandBananas – Costa RicaSugar snap peas – KenyaWine – South AfricaApples – FranceStrawberries – IsraelCoffee – Columbia

Extension:

Why do you think these products are produced in these countries?

Primary activities collect natural resources Primary activities collect natural resources or or products from the Earthproducts from the Earth, and include five main , and include five main sections (sections (FFFEMFFFEM):):

• FFarmingarming• FFishingishing• FForestryorestry• EEnergynergy• MMiningining

What factors are the best for farmers?

Using the card sort hand out. Cut out all the different labels.

Try to match the information.

Glue the correct matched pairs into your notebooks.

Colour code the physical and human factors

Rainfall Farming requires either human labour or machinery

Labour This is the demand for the agricultural products

Temperature Crops need between 250mm & 500mm per year

Market This is the length of time crops need to grow - wheat needs 90 frost free days

Growing season Crops need a minimum of 6 degrees C and three months of 17 degrees to ripen

Soil The higher you are the colder it gets so this affects the type of farming

Altitude Deep, fertile and well drained soil is best for crops

Quotas This may influence what is grown as certain types of farming need more capital

Attitudes

Governments can also place limits on certain products to prevent surpluses

Finance Steep slopes result in thin and infertile soils and machinery is difficult to use

Relief Personal interests of the farmer and public will affect what is grown

Farming as a system Inputs; What goes into the system Output: Finished product Processes – The things which make inputs become

outputs