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2. Nomadic Herding
a) is where herdsmen move from place to place with their animals for fodder and water along
defined routes
b) is practiced in semi-arid and arid areas like Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Sahara and
Central Asia
c) Sheep, goats, camels and yaks are reared and provide milk, meat, wool and hide to the
herdsmen.

 COMMERCIAL FARMING
a) involves activities on a larger scale and yield a much larger produce
b) is where minimal manual labour is involved and machines do most of the work
c) The crops grown and the animals reared are sold in the market.
d) Developed nation mostly perform this farming extensively.
e) includes

A] Commercial Grain Farming

1.is the cultivation of crops for commercial purposes where crops are grown for sale in the market
2.is practiced in the sparsely populated areas of the temperate grasslands of North America, Europe
and Asia
3.The main crops grown are wheat and maize.

B] Mixed Farming

1.is where the land is used for growing food, fodder crops and rearing livestock

2.is common in Europe, parts of eastern USA, Argentina, southeast Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa

3.Farmers cultivate food crops like rice, wheat and fodder crops like barley and grass.

C] Plantation

1.is where large farms or estates grow a single crop, of tea, coffee, sugarcane, cashew, rubber,
banana or cotton, for commercial use
2.requires a large amount of labour and capital investment in building an extensive transportation
network
3.needs specific climatic conditions
4.The produce from these plantations, like tea leaves and rubber latex, are processed to produce
market-ready output, i.e. tea and rubber sheets.
5.is common in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world like India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Brazil