MEDC Rural

MEDC Rural

1. Farming Types

   • What is grown
     • Mixed
       • Grow crops + rear animals
     • Pastoral
       • Farms rear animals
     • Arable
       • Farms grow crops
         • barley, wheat and suagr
   • What we get out of them
     • Commercial
       • Produces food for themselves
     • Subsitence
       • Produces food for business only
   • What we put into them
     • Intensive
       • Intensive farming is when farms use lots of money, machines and technology
     • Extensive
       • Similar inputs and bigger area of land
       • Similar inputs and bigger area of land

2. Market Town

   • Farmers that require equipment
     • Fertilisers
     • Machinery
     • Seeds
   • Also require services
     • Banks
     • Accountants
     • Machinery repairs

3. Rural Depopulation

   • Fewer jobs due to increased MECHANISATION
   • Fewer people working
     • Fewer taxes being paid
   • Low paid jobs = low skilled jobs

4. Commercial Agriculture

   • Carried out to make a profit
   • Done by farmers who own a vast area of land
     • This is extensive farming
       • requires an enormous inputs of £££!