World Agriculture

8 notes tagged World Agriculture.

• Geography

  World Agriculture, Resources and Trade

  World farming systems by region, iron ore, coal and oil's biggest producers, and the trade blocs UPSC tests, from GC Leong's world economic geography.

• Geography

  Cereals, Vegetables and Fruits

  Rice, wheat and maize each need a different climate and dominate a different set of countries, plus where China's vegetable dominance and the world's citrus belts sit.

• Geography

  Beverages and Sugar

  China leads tea production but Kenya leads its export, Brazil dominates both coffee and sugarcane, and Ivory Coast alone supplies over a third of the world's cocoa.

• Geography

  Industrial Crops

  Rubber's Malaysia-to-Thailand shift, why Indonesia and Malaysia together supply four-fifths of world palm oil, and the soybean belt running from Brazil to the American Midwest.

• Geography

  Fibres

  Cotton needs a frost-free 200 days and black soil, jute needs a flooded delta, and China leads wool production even though Australia dominates its export and quality.

• Geography

  World Livestock Geography

  Brazil has the world's largest cattle herd, but India leads milk output, the United States leads beef production, and Brazil still leads beef exports, three different rankings for one animal.

• Geography

  World Fishing Grounds and Fisheries

  Why the world's richest fishing grounds sit on cold-water continental shelves and current junctions, not warm tropical seas, and how aquaculture overtook wild catch entirely.

• Geography

  Forestry and Forest Industries

  Why the coniferous taiga, not the equatorial rainforest, is the world's real commercial timber belt, and why Russia's forest area does not translate into leading softwood output.