Which type of cultivation is most dominant in areas with Mediterranean climate?
Correct Answer: Orchard farming and Viticulture
Subject: geography
- Commercial grain farming
- Orchard farming and Viticulture
- Subsistence shifting agriculture
- Plantation agriculture
Explanation: • Mediterranean region is known as "Orchard Lands of the World".
• Wine industry (from grapes/viticulture) has flourished in this region.
• Wheat, Barley, and Vegetables are also grown apart from commercial crops.
• Shifting is in tropics; Commercial grain is in temperate grasslands.
• Mediterranean = Citrus fruits + Wine.
• Viticulture is the specialized cultivation of grapes.