AP Human Agricultural Types

This type of subsistence agriculture is done mainly in tropical areas of Latin America and Africa.

• Plantation

• Intensive Subsistence, Wet Rice Dominant

• Mixed Crop & Livestock

• Shifting Cultivation

• Market Gardening

This type of agriculture is largely done in the arid regions of the United States but is also prevalent in Argentina, Brazil, and China.

• Mixed crop & Livestock

• Market Gardening

• Ranching

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Shifting Cultivation

We get most of our coffee beans, sugarcane and bananas from this type of farms in the developing world

• Intensive Subsistence, Wet Rice not Dominant

• Plantation

• Pastoral Nomdism

• Ranching

• Market Gardening

While growing in prevalence in Asia, the plains states of the United States and Canada produce about half the world exports of this major crop

• Dairy

• Grain

• Beef

• Bananas

• Coffee

Some of the most important crops produced through this type of agriculture are grapes, olives and citrus fruits

• Plantation

• Mixed Crop & Livestock

• Mediterranean

• Market Gardening

• Shifting Cultivation

This type of agriculture is still largely practiced near urban areas in the northeastern United States, southeastern Canada and northwestern Europe

• Dairying

• Ranching

• Mixed Crop & Livestock

• Market Gardening

• Plantation

This type of agriculture dominates in the lower precipitation areas of India and northeastern China

• Mixed Crop & Livestock

• Dairying

• Ranching

• Intensive Subsistence, Wet Rice not Dominant

• Plantation

This type of agriculture produces specialty crops like asparagus, peppers and mushrooms preferred by affluent customers in New England

• Mixed Crop & Livestock

• Shifting Cultivation

• Plantation

• Commercial Gardening

• Mediterranean

This type of commercial farming is done mainly for large scale production of crops to the developed world in the tropical & subtropical regions of the developing world

• Plantation

• Commercial Gardening

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Shifting Cultivation

• Intensive Subsistence, Wet Rice not Dominant

The land processed for this type of agriculture in the developing world is only used for 2 – 3 years before it is abandoned for another site

• Pastoral Nomadism

• Plantation

• Intensive Subsistence, Wet Rice

• Shifting Cultivation

• Ranching