hello there geographers and welcome back to the Mr sin Channel today we're going to talk about different types of extensive and intensive subsistence and Commercial agricultural practices plus we're also going to review the bid rent Theory mono cropping and monoculture as always if you find Value in these videos consider subscribing to start we have to understand the difference between subsistence Agriculture and Commercial agriculture subsistence agriculture is agricultural production that is done with the goal of providing food for a person's family or local community the purpose of this agriculture is not to make a profit it is to produce food for consumption commercial agriculture on the other hand is about producing food for a profit here the goal is not to produce food for the farmer to consume but to sell for a profit subsistence agriculture generally uses less machines as a smaller Farm size and relies more on human labor well commercial agriculture on the other hand generally has a larger Farm size utilizes more advanced machines to help with the production of food and uses less human labor countries that are more economically developed such as core countries tend to see more commercial Agriculture and machines used in the production of food while countries that are less economically developed and part of the periphery tend to have more of their population working in agriculture and lack the resources for more Advanced Machinery which makes sense if we think back to our unit 2 Concepts where we learned about the demographic transition model and also the different densities such as the agricultural density two other Concepts we can connect back to is intensive and extensive agricultural practice which we last talked about in our unit 5 topic one video extensive subsistence agricultural practices traditionally tend to use less Capital less machines and human labor but do require more land an example of extensive subsistence agriculture would be pastoral known intensive subsistence agricultural practices on the other hand tend to use less land more human labor and may require more Capital such as intensive subsistence with wet rice farming and terrorist farming in parts of South Asia if we look at agricultural practices that generate Revenue we can see extensive commercial agricultural practices which traditionally use less Capital machines and human labor but often do require significant amounts of land such as cattle ranching which uses few machines and lots of land it has a goal of making a profit off the cattle that are raised lastly there is intensive commercial agricultural practice which use less land but more Capital machines and or human labor for example Dairy farming which requires a significant amount of work of having the cows being milked at least twice a day and lots of investment to purchase the machines needed for large-scale production oftentimes we see agriculture that is intensive located near a market or city while agriculture that is extensive and needs more land will be located farther away from a city or Market this is partially due to the bid rent Theory which is an important theory that will come up later in this unit when we talk about vontoon and again when we go into our unit six and look at Urban Geography the bid rent Theory looks at the price of land in relation to the city or urban areas as we move further away from the city we see the price of land go down however as we get closer to the city the price of land goes up this is all because of scarcity cities have less land available due to the higher population density so the cost of land is more as we move farther away from the city the demand for land goes down which means more land is available thus decreasing the price of land so agriculture that needs more land is often located farther away from an urban area take advantage of Cheaper land prices and maximize profit this is especially true if transporting the final product is relatively inexpensive today we can also see the impact of mono cropping and monoculture mono cropping is when Farmers grow the same crop each year they continue to plant the same species of crop year after year after year now monocropping does risk soil depletion due to the lack of crop rotation however today we are seeing more farmers use mono cropping because of the possible profits they can get when Farmers specialize in a specific crop they become more efficient at producing that which ultimately results in them making a larger profit now monoculture on the other hand is when Farmers grow one type of crop at a period of time however they may switch the type of crop after they harvest our geographers now comes the time to practice what we have learned remember if you found value in this video consider subscribing and check out my ultimate review packet for more help with your AP Human Geography studies as always thank you so much for watching I'm Mr sin and I'll see you next time online