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and precious stones. A mine usually practised mainly for subsistence, the Shifting Agriculture
denotes underground working except in modern ranches present an example of A method of farming in which a patch of
open-pit mines. commercial pastoralism. ground is cultivated for a period of few
years until the soil is partly exhausted or
Mineral Plantation Agriculture overrun by weeds, and after which the
A substance that is found in the earth’s crust, A large-scale one-crop farming resembling land is left to natural vegetation while
and which generally has a definite factory production. It is usually cultivation is carried on elsewhere. In due
chemical composition unlike most rocks. characterised by large estate, huge capital course, the original patch of land is
investment, and modern and scientific cultivated again when the natural growth
Mineral Fuel techniques of cultivation and trade. has restored fertility.
Non-metallic minerals such as coal and
petroleum which are used as fuel. Port Subsistence Agriculture
The commercial part of a harbour Farming in which its produce is mainly
Mineral Oil containing facilities for embarking and consumed in the farmer’s household unlike
A mixture of hydrocarbons in solid, disembarking passengers, loading and commercial agriculture whose products
gaseous or liquid form found in the earth. It unloading, and some facilities for the storage enter into trade on a very large scale.
is commonly known as petroleum. It became of cargo.
a commercial product only in 1859. Transhumance
Primary Activity A seasonal movement of herdsmen with
Mineral Ore Activities concerned with collecting or their livestock and from and to the
Metals in their raw state as extracted from making available materials, provided by mountains or between the regions of
the earth. nature, for example, agriculture, fishing, differing climates.
forestry, hunting or mining.
Mining Transport
An economic activity concerned with the Quarry The action of carrying persons and goods
extraction of commercially valuable minerals An open-air excavation from which stone from one place to another.
from the bowels of the earth. is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
Truck Farming
Mixed Farming Ranches Growing of vegetables around the urban
A type of farming in which cultivation of crops Large stock farms, usually fenced in, where centres to meet the daily demand of the
and raising of livestock go hand in hand. animals are bred and reared on a people is known as truck farming. It is
Both these activities play an important part commercial scale. They are found governed by the distance a truck can cover
in the economy. especially in the United States. overnight between the farm and the market.
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