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India
Primary Economic Activities
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Name and explain 2 factors affecting agriculture in India. | Climate and soils have influenced agriculture in India. |
Explain how Climate has influenced agriculture in India. | India has a tropical climate with high temperatures (20-30 degrees), throughout the year. -This has influenced crop types that people grow. -Tropical climate allows production of crops, eg: rice and sugar, which require high temperatures. |
Explain how the influence of soils have affected agriculture in India . | Soils have influenced pattern of primary economic production in India. -In South-West state of Kerala deep, fertile red soils are found allows production of coffee. - Kerala is main coffee- producing state in India.-Rice requires fertile soils |
Name a region in India that has produced rice in the primary sector and explain. | Rice is grown in the Ganges region , in India. -The monsoon floods in October have led to the fertile, alluvial land, which has lead to the planting of rice. |
Explain how livestock has aided farming in the region you have studied. | India has the largest livestock farming inn the world. -They do pastoral farming in India and this has lead to increase in work in the primary sector. |
Name another type of farming done in India and explain this. | Another type of farming done in India is the tea trade. -India is the world's biggest tea producer and most of it is exported. -Tea must be picked, dried, sampled and exported. -Tea grows best ast altitudes of 1000m, eg: Himalayn mts. |