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UPSC Prelims · General Studies

Geography

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World economic geography

Primary activities of the world

Practise 1 PYQ

Concepts to cover

  1. Hunting and gathering; nomadic herding (Sahara, Central Asian steppe, tundra) and commercial livestock rearing
  2. Primitive and intensive subsistence agriculture; wet paddy and other crops
  3. Plantation agriculture: origin, crops, regions
  4. Extensive commercial grain cultivation; mixed farming (crops and livestock together); dairy farming
  5. Mediterranean agriculture (viticulture), market gardening, truck farming, factory farming
  6. Cooperative and collective farming (kolkhoz)
  7. Mining: factors of location, open-cast and shaft mining
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