The primary sector

The primary sector

1. Crop farming

   • Nature factors
     • Factors wich affect how plants grow
       • Humidity
       • Rainfall
       • Sunshine
     • Rocky soil
     • Sedimentary oil
     • High areas and steep slopes
   • Human factors
     • Mechanisation of farm work
     • Modern sprinker and drip irrigation system
     • Greenhouse farming
     • Chemicals
     • Biological techniques
     • Traditional agriculture
       • Low productivity
       • Limited mechanisation

2. Livestock farming

   • Factors of the livestock farming
     • Physical
     • Human
   • Profitable livestock farming
     • Cold and high areas
       • Low temperatures
       • Mountains ranges
   • The most important human factor
     • Population density
       • Cause
         • Require less labour than agriculture
       • Consecuence
         • Population is limites in size
   • In the past
     • Characteristics
       • In flat
       • Populated regions
       • With temperature climates
   • The green revolution
     • Animals can now be given feed and fodder
     • The existence of feed
   • Types of livestock farming
     • Extensive
       • Nomadic
       • Seasonal migratory
       • Non-transhumt
     • Intensive
       • Stabling the animals on farms
       • Living conditions are monitored by vets

3. Forestry

   • Depend on
     • The local climate
     • The quality of the soil
     • The relief
   • Presences of trees
     • In forest
     • On plantations
   • Types
     • Clean felling
     • Thinning
     • Pollading

4. Fishing

   • Factors
     • Fresh water areas
     • Ocean waters
   • Types
     • Traditional fishing
       • Nets Harpoons Hooks Fish pots
     • Commercial fishing
       • Trawling fishing
       • Electrofishing with suction
     • Aquaculture

5. Agrarian landscape

   • Rural envioremnet
     • Population centrs
     • Dispersed/concentrated
   • Agrarian landscape
   • Agriculture landscape
   • Plots
     • Size
     • Shape
     • Boundaries
   • Types of crops
     • Anual
     • Perennial
   • Developed agrarian landscape
     • Produced by plantation agriculture
       • Plots/open
       • Monoculture
       • Settlement
     • Produced by extensive agriculture
       • Plots/open fields
       • Crops
       • Settlement
     • Produced by mechanised mediterranean agriculture
       • Plots
       • Open/closed fields
       • Follow/crops
       • Settlement