Characteristics, Issues And Trends Of The Region From An Agricultural Perspective

In Malaysia, agriculture remains an important sector and it plays role as food providers, create employments and generate earnings from export products. The development of the agricultural sector is generally governed by a comprehensive and market driven agricultural policies. The agricultural policies were formulated and have enabled the agricultural sector to grow sustainably and also contributed to economy development in Malaysia. The agricultural policy set the direction for the agricultural sector. As a result, this sector has been transformed from a conventional and passive sector that focused on single commodity to a dynamic, diversified and modern sector.

Six counties in the capital region have lost more than 58,000 acres and over one hundred and four farms between 2002 and 2007. Montgomery County alone lost 27,421 acres of farmland during this phase. Schoharie County Planning director Alicia Terry said “It’s been a long-term trend. I’m saddened” (Ackerman). In counties such as Schoharie country, farming is the primary industry. To prevent more damage from being done, Schoharie country has implemented a countrywide farmland protection plan and it was the first country in New York to develop agricultural districts.

South Asia is one of the most densely populated regions of the world, where despite a slow growth, agriculture remains the backbone of rural economy as it employs one half to over 90 percent of the labor force. Both extensive and intensive policy measures for agriculture

Mayan civilization underwent massive developments in agriculture and within their society. According to historian Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Maya Maize agricultural practices have remained the same as they were over three thousand years ago. (Morley 128) A uncomplicated process of felling the forest, burning dried trees and bushes, planting, and switching up the spots of the cornfields every few years. This system is known as the milpa agriculture, pulled from the Aztec word for cornfield. Agricultural tools were fire-hardened, the Maya xul, a pointed planting stick, the baat, a stone axe, chim, a fiber bag for carrying the seed corn. At first, they used sticks to punch holes into the ground, but progressively obtained more advanced farming techniques. Their main crops they grew were maize (corn), beans, squash, avocados, chili peppers, pineapples, papayas, and cocoa, which was used for

The Farmers 6000 (also known as F6) is a robot build to farm goods and plant trees on a spaceship. The F6 will help develop a healthy environment, and provide fresh fruits and vegetables. The F6 will cover all jobs a regular farmer has, from seeding a plant, to fixing a plant. The F6 is also very friendly with humans, and enjoys the pleasure of making people happy.

Human societies since the beginning of time have probably committed more land to Agricultural production than for any other purpose. Demand for land especially for Agricultural production in many parts of the globe is on the increase. Studies have revealed that the rise in demand for food to feed the world’s teaming population, the increased demand for agricultural output to produce alternative energy, high agricultural product prices are amount other factors that have caused a surge in the demand for agricultural land globally.

The Rise of Asia The past 20 to 30 years have also seen the rise of Asian developing economies, such as China, India and the Republic of Korea, in the global economy. Since the early 1980s, Asian economies have had faster economic growth than the US and Europe, expanding by an average of around 9 per cent for the past 3 decades, with India at around 5 per cent. (Morris,

Summarise and compare the evidence for the development of agriculture in South West Asia and North America.

This would help accommodate new prices on livestock, wheat, and milk. Also it would make them stop producing too much. Before this crisis happened, many farmers that were in debt and in order to earn more money, they would continually increase their products. This led to prices going downhill and do more work the following year. “Through 1936 the AAA contributed $1.5 billion in subsidies to farmers enrolled in the program. Unfortunately, the AAA's herculean effort failed to resolve the farm crisis” The Agricultural Adjustment Administration began paying farmers to lower their production. This came to a conclusion, to pass the Farm Credit Act. This particular act helped with loans because there was a fear of bankruptcy. This act would cause a huge public disagreement because people often question why landowners and not sharecroppers and farmers were gaining aid. A handful of farmers who were given aid, usually spent it on products for their farm. This gave them the overpower of getting rid the need of sharecropping. Many citizens were angry at the government that farmers were getting paid to get rid of their crops, when they could be just feeding the less fortunate if the food was already there. Despite many of these problems the Agricultural Adjustment Administration helped bring the prices

In this essay we look in-depth on how government strategies and economic policy play a crucial role in the success of High Performance Asian Economies (HPAEs) during 1960 to 1990 (World Bank 1993).There are eight countries within HPAEs: South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan. Its economic development has significantly rise that it was name ‘East Asia Miracle’ (World Bank, 1993).

Production and Productivity Trends Labor productivity. Up until the 1970s, the Philippines’ agricultural performance, in terms of both agricultural Gross Value Added (GVA) and agricultural exports, compared well with its neighbors and other Asian countries (Figure 3a). But by the 1980s and 1990s, the country had lagged behind most of the countries in the region (Figures 3b and 3c). This came as agricultural output growth had slowed down dramatically through the decades (Figure 4). Moreover, the sector’s growth had been rather erratic in the 1990s, especially with the periodic occurrence of the El Niño phenomenon that had appreciable impact on weather patterns and, consequently, agricultural performance. Table 1 shows the average annual growth in GVA of major agricultural commodities since 1960. What is clear from the table is that growth rates of all commodities, except for livestock and poultry, have been slowing down over time. Furthermore, growth rates have been below the population growth rate, implying that production has not been able to keep up with increasing population. Erratic and decelerating growth over the past two decades is a major concern, as agriculture continues to employ a large

Diamond argues that necessity is not the mother of invention, rather invention is the mother of necessity. Something does not get invented for a need, rather when it is invented; people find ways to use it. Edison’s invention of the phonograph was not used for what Edison intended it to be used for. If necessity really were the mother of invention, then Edison would have created the invention for a specific need and people wouldn’t have decided the ‘need’ for it.

In recent years, Vietnam is known for their leading agricultural exports and foreign investment destination. According to Trading Economics (2014), “Vietnam 's key products are: rice, cashew nuts, black pepper, coffee, tea, fishery products and rubber” and also known to be the third largest oil reserve in Asia (EIA, 2014). These are key contributions toward Vietnam’s GDP growth rate shown in Fig. 3.

The USDA recorded value of crop production in the United States in the year 2015 was 186.2 billion dollars. The agricultural industry in America is an economic giant. It provides a consistent food supply to many countries around the world, not to mention the United Sates. It stimulates and stabilizes the economy, all while bringing in billions of dollars every year. While these things are very beneficial to this country, the agricultural industry also depends, at least in part, on funding from the government through agricultural subsidies.

Since independence, Timor-Leste’s traditional agricultural systems have undergone few significant changes (Molyneux et al., 2012) and evidence has shown that Timor-Leste’s adoption rates of new agricultural technology are relatively low, despite the massive potential for yield improvements that could help to alleviate food insecurity (Jensen et al., 2014). Contemporary cropping technologies and chemical fertilizers cannot be easily accessed or afforded by the majority of subsistence farmers and as such they are rarely utilised.