ICOM Part 2 Commercial Geography Chapter 12 Short Questions with Answers

Question # 1

Ans 1: Man has lived on the earth for about two million years-since the Pleistocene times. But cannot document the origins of Agriculture with certainly, because it began before the recorded history.
Scholars try to reconstruct a logical sequence of events based on fragments of information about ancient Agriculture practices and environmental conditions, the cultivation of plants may have originated by accident. It is roughly assumed that such crude forming appeared about 10 to 9 thousand years ago.

Agriculture probably did not originated in one location, instead, it had multiple independent hears, or points of origin. According to river valleys theory, valley of Tigris and Euphrates in the Middle East is perhaps origin of agriculture and center of civilization. While according to Carl-Sauers theory, Agriculture started from South Asia's coastal region. On the other hand according to Midden Heap theory, Agriculture started from warm humid regions of the world.

Question # 2

Question # 3

Ans 1: Today in this science era, Agriculture can be defined as, " Agriculture is art, science and industry of managing the growth of plants and animals for human use."

Question # 4

Ans 1: Natural rubber, tea, coffee, sugar cane, cotton, wool, palm oil, wheat and soya bean are a few crops which have prominent position in international trade. Some crops have very major role in some countries economy. For example wool is a prominent export of Australia and New Zealand, while oil palm export is major export Malaysia.

Question # 5

Ans 1: Dairy farming is the most important type of commercial Agriculture practiced on farms out side the large urban areas of the northeast U.S.A, South-East Canada and northwest Europe. It account for approximately 20 percent of the total value of Agriculture output through western Europe and North America. The Russian Federation, Australia, and New Zealand has developed dairy farming at large scale.

Question # 6

Ans 1: In backward and developing countries countries agriculture is still major economic activity of man and agriculture has prominent share in their economy. Major part of labour force is still engaged in agriculture activity. In backward and developing countries lack of education in major problem. Therefore major percentage of population is engaged in primary economic activity. Low per capita is main problem of these countries.

Question # 7

Ans 1: Shifting cultivation is found in most parts of the world's tropical regions, which have relatively high temperature and abundant rainfall. The Amazon basin of South America, Central and west Africa and South East Asia, including Indochina, Indonesia and New Guinea.

Question # 8

Ans 1: Silk farm / Sericulture is one of the oldest farming in China-as long as 27th Century B.C. Besides China, Japan, South Korea, India Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Brazil are prominent in sericulture / Silk farming in the world.

Question # 9

Ans 1: Pastoral nomadism is a from of subsistence Agriculture based on the herding of domesticated animals. Large belt of arid and semiarid lands that includes North Africa, Middle East and parts of Central Asia. The Bedouins of Sauidi Arabia and North Africa and the Masai of East Africa are best examples of nomadic groups. Only 15 million people are pastoral nomads, but they occupy about 20 percent earth's land area.

Question # 10