Maximising Agriculture Landuse

Agriculture Landuse

Besides maximising urban landuse,countires also need to look for land to grow more food crops to feed their increasing population.
There are 3 ways to maximise agriculture landuse.

Irrigation,Terracing and soil-less farming.
Irrigation or the watering of crops throught artificial means to allow farmers to grow crops in areas that exprience water shortage and to ensure that the crops receive just the right amount of water.
water can come from irrigation pipes from various water sources such as river or lake where water is scarce.

Terracing
In countires such as japan,where flat are arable land limited,hilly areas are used for the cultivation of crops.Hilly areas are unsuitable for farming because steeps slopes cause water to run off very quickly. and water is ratained by the soil.This makes the plants not have enough water to nutrients to grow well.
Its is also difficult for machinery on steep slopes.
Terracing invlove creating flats strips of land by cutting a series of steps into hill slopes.This increases the supply of arable land as flat land is more favourable for cultivation to be carried.

 Soil-less Farming.
Beside using irrgation and terracing,farmers can maximise land for agriculture by crops without soil.This enables to crops to be grown closer together.thus maxmising landuse for agrucilture purposes.This method is is known as soil-less farming.
plants grow by soil-less farming method can be grown closer together.
Soil-less farming is found to be effective in increasing output of crops.This is because sufficient amount of nutrients can be delivered and disrtibuted evenly to crops at regular intervals.