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    Farming: Miron Daciana Muntianu Alexandra Palcu Mălina Vesa Alexia

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    Farming involves growing edible plants and raising animals. It provides essential food and resources for communities. Many physical factors like soil, climate, and relief influence farming, as do human factors such as labor, capital, technology, and markets. There are different types of farming including arable, pastoral, mixed, horticulture, market gardening, and viticulture. Farming is important for society and accounts for a large percentage of UK land use.

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    Farming involves growing edible plants and raising animals. It provides essential food and resources for communities. Many physical factors like soil, climate, and relief influence farming, as do human factors such as labor, capital, technology, and markets. There are different types of farming including arable, pastoral, mixed, horticulture, market gardening, and viticulture. Farming is important for society and accounts for a large percentage of UK land use.

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    Farming involves growing edible plants and raising animals. It provides essential food and resources for communities. Many physical factors like soil, climate, and relief influence farming, as do human factors such as labor, capital, technology, and markets. There are different types of farming including arable, pastoral, mixed, horticulture, market gardening, and viticulture. Farming is important for society and accounts for a large percentage of UK land use.

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    Farming

    Miron Daciana
    Muntianu Alexandra
    Palcu Mălina
    Vesa Alexia
    What is farming?
    Farming is the act or the process of working the ground, planting seeds, and
    growing edible plants. You can also describe raising animals for milk or meat as farming.
    Farming is a great way to describe the lifestyle and the work of people whose jobs are in
    the agriculture industry.

    The importance of farming


    It is important due to the fact that it provides food, as well as other necessities in a
    community. Farming and agriculture is essential to the success of society as a whole.
    Without it, everyone would be forced to hunt and gather food, and it is not possible for
    the world's population to overcome such a lifestyle.
    Factors influencing the farming industry
    Farming can be affected by many things, although these are subdivided in two large
    categories such as physical and human factors.

    The physical factors:


    oThe soil
    oThe climate
    oThe relief

    The human factors:


    oThe labour impacts
    oThe capital
    oThe technology
    oThe market
    Types of farming
    1)Arable farming 2)Pastoral farming
     The production of crops  Focused on animals and animal
    produce
     Practised in the southeast
     Steep pieces of land
     The UK grows cereals: - oats
    - wheat - best suited to sheep since they
    - barley can easily graze the grass over the slopes

     Pulse crops and forage crops

     Summer, spring and autumn


    Arable farming

    Pastoral farming

    Mixed farming
    3)Mixed farming
     A combination between pastoral farming and arable farming

     Practiced in Central England and Central Scotland

     Ideal relief and climate

    4)Horticulture
     Cultivation of fruit, vegetables, herbs, nuts, flowers and ornamental
    plants

     In Latin, it means “garden culture”

     3 areas: - ornamental horticulture


    - olericulture
    - pomology
    5)Market gardening 6)Viticulture
     The growth and production of grapes
     Also called a micro-farm
     The UK is a major consumer, but a minor
     Fruit, vegetables, flowers are grown and sold
    producer of wine
     Related to horticulture
     Wine sales represent only 1% of the domestic
    market

     500 working vineyards in the UK


    Curiosities
     Farmland, with more than 20 million hectares of land, covers about 64 per cent of
    the UK, which is the equivalent of 30 million football pitches.

     In the UK, wheat is the most common crop.

     East Anglia is the most productive crop producer in the UK.


    Bibliography
    https://www.reference.com/business-finance/farming-important-a438d272bb91ae9c
    https://www.acpsd.net/cms/lib/SC02209457/Centricity/Domain/3256/Exploring%20the%20Horticulture%20Industry%20plan.pdf
    types-of-farms-in-theuk/#:~:text=Throughout%20the%20UK%2C%20there%20are,such%20as%20barley%20and%20wheat
    https://www.strawspreader.co.uk/https://vdocuments.net/geoprofiles.html
    https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/business/7-things-farming-uk-surprise-13547743
    https://revisionworld.com/gcse-revision/geography/agriculture/factors-affecting-farming
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_Kingdom
    https://marketbusinessnews.com/financial-glossary/market-garden/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_garden
    http://projectbritain.com/farming.html

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