OK. You've checked your book. Now sit and think a minute.
Is is it easy to live on a mountain? Can you grow crops on a mountain?
How do mountains influence where people farm in the Koreas?
I've looked in my book and couldn't find anything... HELP PLZ!!!!!
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Well, Thats The Problem, I Can't find ANY actual info on this stuff!
You need to THINK. Answer my two questions. What do you THINK?
It's harder to grow crops on the mountain but still possible
Here is what I think. Could you imagine trying to grow your crops on the side of a freaking mountain? I sure as heck can't. What, is my wheat gonna grow straight out the side of it? In your lessons/text book/online research should tell you that The Koreas don't have much arable land or rainfall as it is. I found info from the following paragraphs on a website.
"At the start of the economic boom in 1963, the majority of South Koreans were farmers. Sixty-three percent of the population lived in rural areas. In the next twenty-five years, South Korea grew from a predominantly rural, agricultural nation into an urban, newly industrialized country and the agricultural workforce shrunk to only 21 percent in 1989. Government officials expected that urbanization and industrialization would further reduce the number of agricultural workers to well under 20 percent by 2000.
South Korea's agriculture had many inherent problems. South Korea is a mountainous country with only 22 percent arable land and less rainfall than most other neighboring rice-growing countries. A major land reform in the late 1940s and early 1950s spread ownership of land to the rural peasantry. Individual holdings, however, were too small (averaging one hectare, which made cultivation inefficient and discouraged mechanization) or too spread out to provide families with much chance to produce a significant quantity of food. The enormous growth of urban areas led to a rapid decrease of available farmland, while at the same time population increases and bigger incomes meant that the demand for food greatly outstripped supply. The result of these developments was that by the late 1980s roughly half of South Korea's needs, mainly wheat and animal feed corn, was imported."
Here is my answer
The Koreas have lots of mountains and not much arable land. This makes it difficult to farm. By the later 1900's this resulted in most of Korea's agricultural needs to be imported.
"At the start of the economic boom in 1963, the majority of South Koreans were farmers. Sixty-three percent of the population lived in rural areas. In the next twenty-five years, South Korea grew from a predominantly rural, agricultural nation into an urban, newly industrialized country and the agricultural workforce shrunk to only 21 percent in 1989. Government officials expected that urbanization and industrialization would further reduce the number of agricultural workers to well under 20 percent by 2000.
South Korea's agriculture had many inherent problems. South Korea is a mountainous country with only 22 percent arable land and less rainfall than most other neighboring rice-growing countries. A major land reform in the late 1940s and early 1950s spread ownership of land to the rural peasantry. Individual holdings, however, were too small (averaging one hectare, which made cultivation inefficient and discouraged mechanization) or too spread out to provide families with much chance to produce a significant quantity of food. The enormous growth of urban areas led to a rapid decrease of available farmland, while at the same time population increases and bigger incomes meant that the demand for food greatly outstripped supply. The result of these developments was that by the late 1980s roughly half of South Korea's needs, mainly wheat and animal feed corn, was imported."
Here is my answer
The Koreas have lots of mountains and not much arable land. This makes it difficult to farm. By the later 1900's this resulted in most of Korea's agricultural needs to be imported.
Thx @Student27
ms. sue does this work?
Mountains influence where people farm in the Korea's because you cant farm on a Mountain. This is because its like putting a seed on a wet rock and expecting a flower to grow. it doesn't work that way you need soil.
Mountains influence where people farm in the Korea's because you cant farm on a Mountain. This is because its like putting a seed on a wet rock and expecting a flower to grow. it doesn't work that way you need soil.
thx sick bro!
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