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ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
1. World Economic Development: subsistence tillage with rice dominant and
Measurement and Problems without rice in the crop association.
1999: How far do the patterns of economic 2008: Discuss the views of von Thunen on
development and those of human agricultural location.
development correspond with each other 2009: (b) Provide a geographical account of
in the world? Illustrate your answer with global production and distribution of food.
examples.
2011: Mention the agriculture regions as
2001: Examine the spatial patterns of classified by Whittlessy and discuss their
development disparity prevailing in the relevance. (150 words)
world.
6. Agricultural Inputs and Productivity
2. World Resources and their Distribution 1998: Examine the impact of advanced
1997: “Water is a scarce resource in plenty”. agricultural technology on environment.
Comment and discuss its importance in the Support your answer with examples.
balanced habitat development. Support 2007: Explain the concept of sustainable
your answer with examples from Asia. development and propose a model for
2014: “World is passing through a global agricultural development.
resource dilemma.” Comment. 2009: (a) Discuss the consequences of
Climate Change on agriculture and food
3. Energy Crisis
security, and on the Coastal Zones of the
2013: Role of Venezuela in the production world.
and export of oil. (150 words)
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2013: Countries most affected in case of
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shut-down of Nuclear power. (150 words)
2014: Discuss environmental and economic 7. Food and Nutrition Problems
problems associated with coal production. 8. Food Security; Famine: Causes, Effects and
2015: “Energy mix is a step towards Remedies
sustainability.” Discuss. 2010: Famine to a considerable extent, is a
4. The Limits to Growth man made Hazard. Elaborate.
1998: Explain the term resource 9. World Industries: Locational Patterns and
management. Discuss its relevance in the Problems
context of global resource scarcity and the 1991: Examine the world patterns of
future of mankind. industrial development and explain the
5. World Agriculture: Typology of Agricultural problems of industrial development at
Regions national levels.
1993: Give an account of the agricultural 2005: Discuss Weber’s theory of industrial
typology of the world as presented by location, and assess its relevance in the
Whittlesey and critically examine the present-day context.
parameters used in its delineation. 2012: Problems faced by industries which
1996: Examine the bases of classification of developed due to inertia. (150 words)
agricultural regions as proposed by 2012: Locational significance of Rotterdam
Whittlesey and explain the causes for the European economy. (250 words)
essential difference between intensive
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the per capita income is not increasing, that •
will not raise the living standard of the
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people. That way, per capita income is a and vice-versa.
better measure of economic development 4. Measurement through Occupational
than the national income. Pattern:
• Increase in per capita income can be better • The distribution of working population in
index of an increase in the welfare of the different occupations/sectors of economy
people. In advanced countries, national is also regarded as a criteria for the
income has increased much faster than the measurement of economic development.
growth rate of population. It means the per
(1) Primary Sector: It includes agriculture,
capita real income has been constantly
fisheries, forestry, mining etc.
increasing and this has led to the increase
in welfare of the people. That way, per capita (2) Secondary Sector: It consists of
income can be considered a better index of manufacturing, trade, construction etc.
the welfare of the people. (3) Tertiary Sector: It includes services, banking,
Arguments against Per Capita Real Income: transport, etc.
(a) When we divide national income by • In under-developed countries, majority of
population, the problem of population in the working population in engaged in
that case is ignored. It confines the scope of primary sector. On the contrary, in
the study. developed countries the majority of the
working population works in tertiary sector.
(b) In this measure, distributive aspect has
been ignored. • A shift in occupational distribution of
population from primary sector to
(c) In the underdeveloped countries where per
secondary and territory sectors shows the
capita income is regarded as a measure of
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• It should be noted that great disparities • Such a broad regionalization scheme is likely
exist within realms and within individual to be overly simplistic, yet it commonly used
countries. However, categorisation is done and it can be quite useful.
simply to understand the variation in
economic development across the globe.
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Difficulties Faced in the Measurement of per capita income would indicate country B
Economic Development as more important than country A.
The measurement of economic Therefore, we are required to know both
development is really a difficult work as these measures to assess economic
every method faces the problems of its own development accurately.
kind. 3. It does not take into account the
1. Lack of Statistical Data distribution of wealth and suffers with the
• In order to measure economic development problem of averages.
accurately, we should have GUIDANCE IASinformal sector and unpaid work
correct 4. It excludes
assessment of national income, per M capita such
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income, per capita consumption etc. 5. It does not tell if the life of people have
• But in under-developed economies the actually improved. Being output based not
data on national income, per capita income outcome based belies the inclusive
and per capita consumption are not development.
available. Due to lack of statistical data, it is 6. Non-Economic Factors Ignored:
difficult to assess economic development
• It is not only economic factors which affect
accurately in such countries.
economic development. But it is greatly
2. Controversy over national Income and per affected by non-economic factors like social,
capita Income: political, religious, cultural etc. for
• The economists also differ over the issue determining economic development non-
weather to use national income or per capita economic factors are indispensable. But the
income as the measure of economic measurements of economic development
development. In reality we require both of do not take into account the non-economic
these measures. If in two countries the factors.
national income is increasing at same rate 7. Difficulties of International Comparisons:
but in country. A population is doubled
• There is no universal measure of economic
whereas population remains the same in
development with the help of which
country B, in that case the per capita income
International comparisons can be made
in country B will reduce to half as compared
possible.
to country A.
• The national income measure will put both
the countries at same economic level. But
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C) Evolution of various Ideas of development The Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI) was
1. Growth in GNP/GDP Initially, only GDP /GDP developed in 1970s by Morris to respond to
was taken as a measure to assess economic the dissatisfaction due to use of GNP/GDP
development. Increase in GDP/GNP is as a measure of economic development. It
expected to ensure greater availability of was a relatively simple index taken as
goods and services to a larger part of average of three figures viz. basic literacy
population with higher standards of living. rate, infant mortality and life expectancy at
However, there are several limitations of age 1.
this method. Each of these were given equal weightage.
2. The Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI) It was calculated as follows:
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• Glaciers and icecaps cover about 10% of the Lowlands in the South Pacific, Congo, Upper
world’s landmass. These are concentrated Mackenzie River, and North America prairie
in Greenland and Antarctica and contain potholes.
~70% of the world’s freshwater. • The total global area of wetlands is
Unfortunately, most of these resources are estimated at ~2 900 000 km2 . Most wetlands
located far from human habitation and are range in depth from 0-2 metres. Estimating
not readily accessible for human use. the average depth of permanent wetlands
According to the United States Geological at about one metre, the global volume of
Survey (USGS), 96% of the world’s frozen wetlands could range between 2 300 km3
freshwater is at the South and North poles, and 2 900 km3 .
with the remaining 4% spread over 550 000
km2 of glaciers and mountainous icecaps
measuring about 180 000 km3 (UNEP, 1992). Water Use trend and future:
• Groundwater is by far the most abundant 1. Freshwater resources are unevenly
and readily available source of freshwater, distributed, with much of the water located
followed by lakes, reservoirs, rivers and far from human populations. Many of the
wetlands: world’s largest river basins run through
thinly populated regions. There are an
Groundwater represents over 90% of the
estimated 263 major international river
world’s readily available freshwater basins in the world, covering ~231 059 898
resource. About 1.5 billion people depend km2 or 45.3% of the Earth’s land surface area
upon groundwater for their drinking water (excluding Antarctica).
supply (WRI, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank, 1998).
2. Groundwater represents about 90% of the
The amount of groundwater withdrawn world’s readily available freshwater
annually is roughly estimated at ~600-700 resources, and some 1.5 billion people
km3 , representing about 20% of global depend upon groundwater for their
water withdrawals (WMO, 1997). drinking water.
A comprehensive picture of the quantity of 3. Agricultural water use accounts for about
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annually around the world does not exist. through crop irrigation, while industrial use
• Most freshwater lakes are located at high accounts for about 20%, and the remaining
altitudes, with nearly 50% of the world’s 5% is used for domestic purposes.
lakes in Canada alone. Many lakes, 4. It is estimated that two out of every three
especially those in arid regions, become people will live in water-stressed areas by
salty through evaporation, which the year 2025. In Africa alone, it is estimated
concentrates the inflowing salts. The that 25 countries will be experiencing water
Caspian Sea, the Dead Sea, and the Great stress (below 1,700 m3 per capita per year)
Salt Lake are among the world’s major salt by 2025. Today, 450 million people in 29
lakes. countries suffer from water shortages.
• Reservoirs are artificial lakes, produced by 5. Clean water supplies and sanitation remain
constructing physical barriers across flowing major problems in many parts of the world,
rivers, which allow the water to pool and with 20% of the global population lacking
be used for various purposes. The volume access to safe drinking water. Water-borne
of water stored in reservoirs worldwide is diseases from faecal pollution of surface
estimated at 4 286 km3 waters continue to be a major cause of
• Wetlands include swamps, bogs, marshes, illness in developing countries. Polluted
mires, lagoons and floodplains. The 10 water is estimated to affect the health of
largest wetlands in the world by area are: 1.2 billion people, and contributes to the
West Siberian Lowlands, Amazon River, death of 15 million children annually.
Hudson Bay Lowlands, Pantanal, Upper Nile
River, Chari-Logone River, Hudson Bay
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• A wide variety of human activities also vulnerability in other areas. Because they
affects the coastal and marine environment. are highly dependent upon marine
Population pressures, increasing demands resources, small island developing states
for space and resources, and poor economic (SIDS) are especially vulnerable, due to both
performances can all undermine the the effects of sea level rise and to changes
sustainable use of our oceans and coastal in marine ecosystems.
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areas. Serious problems affecting the
quality and use of these ecosystems include:
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2. FOREST
1. Alteration and destruction of habitats and
ecosystems. Estimates show that almost • Forests cover 4.03 billion hectares globally,
50% of the world’s coasts are threatened by approximately 30% of Earth’s total land area
development-related activities. (FAO 2010). They account for 75% of
terrestrial gross primary production (GPP)
2. Severe eutrophication has been discovered
(Beer et al. 2010)and 80% of Earth’s total
in several enclosed or semienclosed seas.
plant biomass and contain more carbon in
It is estimated that about 80% of marine
biomass and soils than is stored in the
pollution originates from land-based
atmosphere. Forests also harbor the
sources and activities.
majority of species on Earth and provide
3. In marine fisheries, most areas are valuable ecosystem goods and services to
producing significantly lower yields than in humanity, including food, fiber, timber,
the past. Substantial increases are never medicine, clean water, aesthetic and
again likely to be recorded for global fish spiritual values, and climate moderation .
catches. In contrast, inland and marine Moreover, more than 200 million of the
aquaculture production is increasing and world’s poor rely directly on forests for
now contributes 30% of the total global fish energy, shelter, and their livelihoods.
yield. Forests are distributed across the globe.
4. Impacts of climate change may include a • Thirty-one percent of Earth’s total forest
significant rise in the level of the world’s area is found in Asia (including Asian
oceans. This will cause some low-lying Russia), followed by 21% in South America,
coastal areas to become completely 17% in Africa, 17% in North and Central
submerged, and increase human
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America, 9% in Europe, and 5% in Oceania (FAO 2010). Globally, 5% of forests are plantations
generally used for commercial purposes
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Increase in forest area in the industrialized forest area is the depopulation of certain
countries rural areas, owing in part to continuing
In contrast to the high deforestation rate in changes in European agriculture.)
many tropical and subtropical countries, the • At the same time, there is a contradictory
rate of change in forest area in most trend of continuing conversion of forest and
industrialized temperate and boreal other wooded land to urban areas and other
countries is low. In Europe, the area of forest uses such as transport infrastructure and
is expanding, while that of “other wooded recreational facilities (e.g. ski slopes and
land” is decreasing, with a net expansion of trails).In the United States as well, the forest
forest and other wooded land of 0.3 area is expanding while other wooded land
million ha per year. Several developments is decreasing; the net change is an increase
are taking place in the region: of 0.4 million ha per year. Much of this
• Plantation programmes are being increase is due to the natural transition, and
implemented (e.g. in France, Ireland, Turkey reclassification, of other wooded land to
and Spain). forest. Most CIS countries report increases
for both forest and other wooded land, with
• Agricultural land or other wooded land is
a net increase of 1.2 million ha per year for
undergoing natural conversion to forest.
the region.
(Forest is the climax ecosystem for most of
Europe, so most land will revert to forest if ( Interlink forest resources and the above data
human intervention is stopped. A probable with the distribution of natural vegetation
major cause of the expansion of Europe’s covered under Biogeography booklet and some
part in Environmental Geography)
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Factors Affecting Exploitation of Mineral essential. Not only for the mining but it is
Resources also necessary for mined ores to be
• The possession of minerals cannot decide transported at the sites of their use. Ores
the prosperity of a country, because are relatively bulky and heavy. They are thus
existence of a mineral ore is no guarantee costly to transport and the shorter the
that it will be exploited. Often they are distance to be covered the better. The
found in such a small proportion as to be deposits having coastal location or located
almost unavailable and, hence, not useful near industrial sites have an advantage over
for man. Before a mineral can be worked it those far inland.
must be ascertained whether its value is vi. Stage of Industrial Development : The stage
greater than the costs of working, of industrialisation of a country is the
transporting and concentrating the ore. The general index of the exploitation of her
main factors influencing their exploitation mineral wealth. In fact, mineral exploitation
are as follows: is cumulative in the industrial cycle. The vast
i. Richness or Grade of the Ore: The abundance mineral resources of China, India and Brazil
or otherwise the absence of minerals almost remained neglected till they
determines in a large measure their marched on the path of industrial
commercial exploitation. Ores vary in their development.
metal content. Generally the higher-grade vii. Technology: Technological changes
ores are more economic to work, not only pertaining to mining methods,
because they yield large amount of metal manufac-turing processes and the like may
but also because their higher metal content change once worthless deposits are
makes them easier and cheaper to smelt. converted into esteemed commercial ores.
Minerals of high value such as gold, The techniques of geological survey has
diamonds, copper, uranium, can often be now been changed. With the help of remote
mined at very high cost, because they are in sensing techniques, one is able to estimate
great demand and fetch high prices. the reserves of mineral resources of a
region. Other technological changes have
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amount of expensive equipment. It will not mineral resources.
be worthwhile to provide such equipment viii. Other Factors: Among other factors (a) cheap
to work a deposit which will run out in some labour supply, (b) competition from other
months. Small- scale working is only sources, and (c) economic system and tariff
profitable for precious minerals. policies are notable.
Sometimes, small deposits may be worked
out profitably where transport cost is low.
Classification of Minerals
iii. Method of Mining: The method of mining
There are several types of minerals, but
depends on the mode of occur-rence of the
according to their general characteristics
ores. The open-cast mining is the cheapest,
and commercial use, they are classified as
while shaft mines are very expensive. The
follows:
cost of mining also depends on the scale of
operations. If the mining has been done at 1. Metallic minerals: Metallic minerals are
a large scale, the capital and running costs being used for a very wide range of
can be offset. purposes. These are sub-divided into the
following groups:
iv. Accessibility: The accessibility of a region
where the particular mineral deposit occurs a) Iron.
is of great significance. The terrain and b) Base metals such as tin, copper,
climate determine accessibility which helps aluminium, lead and zinc.
or hinders the mining operations. c) Ferro-alloys such as manganese,
v. Transportation Facilities: For a successful chromium, nickel, cobalt, tungsten,
mining transportation facilities are very molybdenum and vanadium can be
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alloyed with iron to produce better steel. this ore is between 50 to 65 per cent and
d) Precious metals like gold, silver and is the most important industrial ore in
platinum. terms of quantity used. Haematites are
red ores derived from sedimentary rocks
e) Others include uranium, which has
and occur in crystalline or in powdery
specialised uses.
forms.
2. Non-metallic minerals: These minerals are
iii. Limonite (2Fe203H20): The iron content
used for structural purposes, chemicals and
in this ore is less than 50 per cent. This is
various industries. The more common non-
a brown ore occurring in sedimentary
metallic minerals are asbestos, mica,
rocks over large areas of the world. It
graphite, fluor spar, sulphur, diamonds,
also sometimes occurs in swamps, where
phosphate rocks, gypsum, etc. Certain
it is known as bog iron.
precious stones, e.g., diamonds are also
non-metallic minerals. iv. Siderite (FeC03): This is a carbonate of
iron, ash-grey in colour, and is found
3. Mineral fuels: Coal, petroleum and natural
interbedded with sedimentary rocks. Its
gas are the mineral fuels. These three are
iron content is usually between 20 to 30
also known as fossil fuels.
per cent.
4. Rocks: Rocks are also aggregations of
minerals. Those commercially exploited Production and World Distribution
include granite and other crystalline igneous • Iron ore-producing areas are widely
and metamorphic rocks. These are used as distributed in the world. There are about 60
building stones, road-metal, brick making, countries in the world, which produce iron
cement making, etc. ore. China, Brazil, Australia, India, Russia,
Ukraine, USA, South Africa, Canada,
IRON ORE Sweden, etc., are the main producers of the
iron ore. Table 8.1 indicates the percentage
• Iron is a basic mineral and the most useful of the iron ore production in important
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industrialization. Today, it is an essential of important countries
metal in the structure of civilisation. Country Production year/percentage of
Without it, there would be no railways, the world
steamships, or machinery. Apart from its
1960 1975 2000 2006
use in the construction of chemical plant,
iron and some of its compounds are vital in China 7.5 6.5 24.3 30.77
certain chemical processes. Brazil 2.5 9.2 19.7 17.75
• Iron ore smelted in a blast furnace with coke Australia 11.3 12.2 18.4 15.98
and limestone becomes pig iron, the raw India 4 5.2 9.2 8.88
material from which cast iron, wrought iron
and steel is made. Russia (USSR) 21.2 25.4 6.3 6.21
There are four types of iron ore, viz., Magnetite, USA 18.1 9.8 3.6 3.2
Haematite, Limonite and Siderite. Canada 4.3 5.5 2 1.95
i. Magnetite (Fe304): This is the finest type Sweden 0.9 6.5 1.5 1.42
of iron ore with a very high content of Venezuela — — 1.4 1.18
iron up to 70 per cent. Magnetite is black Iran — — 1.1 1.18
in colour and formed in igneous or
metamorphic rocks. It has excellent Kazakhstan — — 1.3 0.89
magnetic qualities. Mexico — — 0.8 0.77
ii. Haematite (Fe303): The iron content in Mauritania — — 0.7 0.65
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• Moscow: Tula region also known as Kursk • Western Region: This includes many
Magnetic Anomaly is having large reserve scattered fields in western USA in the states
of iron ore. This region produces high-grade of Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and California.
iron ore. Orel and Veroneth are two major The ores are transported to the steelworks
areas of this region. at San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pueblo,
• North-West Russia: In this region Murmansk Colorado and Provo, Utah.
and Kovador are significant mining areas of South Africa
iron ore. • South Africa, emerged as a leading iron ore-
• In Russia, most of the iron exploitation and producing country of the African continent
associated industrial development is and ranks 8th in the world iron ore
concentrated near Moscow. Many rich production. In South Africa Transvaal is the
deposits were found in Siberia also. main iron ore-producing centre. Transvaal
Ukraine is having high-grade ore with 60 to 65 per
cent iron content.
• It produced 4.32 per cent of the world
production in 2006. Krivoi Rog of Ukraine Canada
contributes 75 per cent production of • Canada produces 1.95 per cent of the total
Ukraine.. Other regions of Ukraine are world production of iron ore in 2006. Canada
Zaporozhe, Zdanow, Lipetsk and Kerch has iron ore in the Lake Superior region, as
Peninsula. does the USA. The main centres are
USA Schefferville and Wabush City. Ore is taken
by rail to Sept Isles on the Gulf of St.
• Once USA was the highest iron ore-
Lawrence and shipped via St. Lawrence
producing country of the world. The
Seaway and Great Lakes to Canadian and US
percentage of world production of iron ore
steel-making centres.
was 18.1 in 1960 and 9.8 in 1975. But now it
produces less than 4 per cent of the world’s United Kingdom
production and ranks 7th. The four main iron • In the 19th century Great Britain was the
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south-eastern region and western region. most of its ores have been exhausted. The
• Lake Superior Region: In this region area of eastern England is the most
haematite iron ore occurs as long low ridge, important in output of iron ore stretching
the most important of which is the Mesabi from Yorkshire through Lincolnshire,
Range. Other deposits occur in the Rutland, and Northamptonshire. UK is now
Vermilion, Cuguna, Gogebic, Menominee a major iron ore importing country.
and Marquette ranges. This region France
comprises north-eastern Minnesota, • The major producing areas of France are
Michigan and south-eastern Wisconsin Lorraine, Normandy and Pyrenees. The
states. Lorraine district supplies about 95 per cent
• North-eastern Region: Mainly magnetite of country’s total. Though the metallic
ores are mined in the Adirondacks region content of the ores is about 35 per cent on
of New York and the Cornwall area of the average, it can be smelted at a low cost
Pennsylvania. They have the advantage of because of calcium carbonate content in the
a central location near the industrial cities ore. It is the largest single ore-body reserve
of New York and Pittsburgh. in Europe. It helped much in setting up steel
• South-eastern Region: This region, centered plants in France.
at Birmingham, Alabama, produces both Germany
haematite and limonite ores. It is favourably • The major iron ore-producing areas of
located near the coalfields of the southern Germany are located in West Germany,
Appalachians and serves the iron and steel these are: Saar Vogelsburg, Erzeburg and
industry of Birmingham. Westphalia, Germany has considerable
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• Gabon (10.9%), Brazil (8.9%), Ghana (7.7%),
Ukraine (4.3%), Georgia (1.2%) and Mexico
(0.7%) are other important manganese-
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• China accounts for 18.41 per cent of the Greece, Guyana, Indonesia, Hungary,
world’s total bauxite production and ranks France, Russia, Turkey, Malaysia, Ghana,
second in production. Hunan, Guichou and Sierra Leone, British Guiana, etc.
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provinces.
TIN
• Brazil is the third largest producer of bauxite
• Tin was found and used in early times but it
in the world and contributes 13.93 per cent
has only attained its present impor-tance
to world production. The central region is
since the invention of tin cans. Tin is
the main producing area.
extensively used in the canning industry
• India ranks 4th in bauxite production in the and as an alloy with copper in bronze. It is
world and produces 11 per cent of the world also used for coating thin sheets by steel as
production in 2009. Madhya Pradesh, it is corrosion-resisting. Tin plating
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, consumes about 40 per cent of the world’s
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu tin output.
and Gujarat are the major producers of
• The principal ore of tin is cassiterite or
bauxite.
tinstone (Sn02) which contains as much as
• Guinea produces more than 8 per cent 75 per cent of tin. It occurs in veins and lodes
bauxite of the world and ranks 5th in the in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Much tin
world. is weathered out of the original rocks and
• Jamaica is also a leading producer of carried by streams and rivers to be
bauxite, contributing about 4 per cent of the deposited in valley and plain alluvium. As
world’s output. Jamaica is also having large much as 80 per cent of the world’s supplies
reserves of bauxite. come from alluvial deposits. Mining is thus
• The other bauxite-producing countries are usually done by placer methods.
Venezuela, Surinam, Kazakhstan, USA,
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Production and World Distribution cent of the total output comes from China
• The tin-producing areas of the world are and Malaysia. The major producers and their
limited in certain pockets and very unevenly percentage share in the world is given in
distributed around the world. Nearly 75 per Table below.
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• In Africa: Morocco, South Africa, Namibia, luxury articles. Because of its rarity, value
Tunisia and Algeria. and durability, it has always been highly
prized as a medium of exchange. It was also
used as coins in the past in few areas of the
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world. Today, the interna-tional system is
• Nickel is a hard and silvery metal, used in backed by gold.
making stainless steel and for
• Gold occurs either in alluvial or placer
electro-plating. It is one of the hardest,
deposits as in California and Alaska, or as
most malleable and least fusible metals
reeps or lods underground, as in South
known. It is less magnetic than iron and is
Africa. It is difficult to recover but its value
thus useful for constructing metal parts
makes very lean ores worth working. Pure
located near compasses. The main ore of
gold is too soft to use in jewellery or
nickel is pentlaudite, a complex mixture of
ornaments and has to be alloyed with, e.g.,
nickel, iron and sulphur. It is also often
copper, silver, zinc and nickel. The purity of
found in association with copper.
gold is expressed in terms of carat, pure gold
• Most of the nickel is used in steel-making. being 24 carats.
An addition of 6 per cent nickel to steel
Production and Distribution
increases its strength, stiffness and
ductility, and this alloy is extensively used • Although gold is produced in many
in making constructional machinery and countries but the important gold-producing
transport equipment. While an addition up countries of the world are South Africa,
to 35 per cent makes steel highly resistant Australia, USA, China, Peru, Russia, Canada,
to heat and acid, which is used in Uzbekistan, Indonesia, and Papua New
manufacturing turbine blades, marine Guinea.
fittings, tools and machinery parts. Other • South Africa is the largest producer of gold
alloys of nickel are nickel-copper and in the world. Its annual production is 341.48
nickel-silver. Nickel is also used in making thousand kilograms. The Witwersand
coins, marine cable, radio transponders, district in Transvaal is leading gold-
flame tubes, batteries, etc. GUIDANCE IASarea of South Africa. Another area
producing
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Johannesburg, Germinston, Benoni,
• The total production of nickel in the world
Booksburg, and Krugersdrop are other gold-
was 1.61 million metric tons in 2008. The
producing centres of South Africa.
important nickel-producing countries and
their percentage in world’s production is as • Australia is the second leading gold
follows: Russia - 17.14 per cent, Canada - producer in the world. Kalgorlie and
15.53 per cent, Indonesia - 13.11 per cent, Koolgardie in Western Australia are the
Australia - 11.18 per cent, New Caledonia- famous gold mining areas. The other gold
5.75 per cent, Columbia - 4.65 per cent, China mining areas of Australia are Bendigo and
- 5.28 per cent, Philippines - 5.49 per cent, Bellwort in V ictoria, Mount Morgan in
Brazil — 4.70 per cent and Cuba — 4.78 per Queensland and New South Wales.
cent. • USA is the third leading producer of gold in
• Some nickel is also produced in South Africa, the world. In USA, California, Colorado,
Dominican Republic, Norway and Germany. Nevada, South Dakota are the main gold-
In India nickel ore is found in Cuttack and producing states.
Mayurbhanj districts of Odisha. • In Canada, Porkupine, Kirkland, Larder lake,
GOLD Pikil lake, Red lake, Yellow Knife and
Clondyke are the main gold-producing
• Gold is regarded as a symbol of prosperity
areas.
and has been used from the earliest days
because of its high metallic luster and its • China has now emerged as a gold-producing
attractive yellow-reddish colour. It is used country. Its main gold-producing areas are
in jewellery and in the manufacture of Yunnan, Manchuria and Tsinling Shan.
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market. Europium was the essential • High prices also caused manufacturers to do
material for producing the color images. The three things: 1) seek ways to reduce the
Mountain Pass Mine began producing amount of rare earth elements needed to
europium from bastnasite, which contained produce each of their products; 2) seek
about 0.1% europium. This effort made the alternative materials to use in place of rare
Mountain Pass Mine the largest rare earth earth elements; and, 3) develop alternative
producer in the world and placed the United products that do not require rare earth
States as the leading producer. elements.
China Enters the Market • This effort has resulted in a decline in the
• China began producing noteable amounts amounts of rare earth materials used in
of rare earth oxides in the early 1980s and some types of magnets and a shift from rare
became the world’s leading producer in the earth lighting products to light-emitting
early 1990s. Through the 1990s and early diode technology. In the United States, the
2000s, China steadily strengthened its hold average consumption of rare earths per unit
on the world’s rare earth oxide market. They of manufactured product has decreased but
were selling rare earths at such low prices the demand for more products
that the Mountain Pass Mine and many manufactured with rare earth elements has
others throughout the world were unable increased. The result has been higher
to compete and stopped operation. consumption.
Defense and Consumer Electronics Demand China Buying Resources Outside of China
• At the same time, world demand was • Chinese companies have been purchasing
skyrocketing as rare earth metals were rare earth resources in other countries. In
designed into a wide variety of defense, 2009 China Non-Ferrous Metal Mining
aviation, industrial and consumer Company bought a majority stake in Lynas
electronics products. China capitalized on Corporation, an Australian company that has
its dominant position and began restricting one of the highest outputs of rare earth
exports and allowing rare earth oxide prices elements outside of China. They also
to rise to historic levels. GUIDANCE IASthe Baluba Mine in Zambia.
purchased
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• In addition to being the world’s largest • Mines in Australia began producing rare
producer of rare earth materials, China is earth oxides in 2011. In 2012 and 2013 they
also the dominant consumer. They use rare were supplying about 2% to 3% of world
earths mainly in manufacturing electronics production. In 2012, the Mountain Pass Mine
products for domestic and export markets. came back into production and the United
Japan and the United States are the second States produced about 4% of the world’s rare
and third largest consumers of rare earth earth elements in 2013. India has been
materials. It is possible that China’s producing about 3% of the world’s supply
reluctance to sell rare earths is a defense of for the past decade. Indonesia, Russia,
their value-added manufacturing sector. Nigeria, North Korea, Malaysia, and
Vietnam are minor producers.
China’s Apex of Production Dominance?
• As of 2013 rare earth assessments were
• The Chinese dominance may have peaked
underway in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China,
in 2010 when they controlled about 95% of
Finland, Greenland, India, Kyrgyzstan,
the world’s rare earth production and prices
Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South
for many rare earth oxides had risen over
Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, and
500% in just a few years. That was an
Vietnam [2]. Some of these might result in
awakening for rare earth consumers and
additional production.
miners throughout the world. Mining
companies in the United States, Australia, • The United States Geological Survey
Canada and other countries began to estimates that although China is the world-
reevaluate old rare earth prospects and leader in rare earth production they only
explore for new ones. control about 50% of the world’s reserves.
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This provides an opportunity for other spent uranium solutions, and xenotime
countries to become important producers make up most of the remaining resources.
now that China is not selling rare earth Undiscovered resources are thought to be
materials below the cost of production. very large relative to expected demand.”
Dangers of a Dominant World Producer
• Supply and demand normally determine the OTHER INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
market price of a commodity. As supplies Mica
shrink, prices go up. As prices go higher,
• Mica is used in the electrical industry, in
those who control the supply are tempted
condensers, insulators, heating elements,
to sell. Mining companies see high prices as
radio components, etc. Mica is a transparent
an opportunity and attempt to develop new
material (sheet) and found in white, black
sources of supply.
and brown colour. Mica is occurred in
• With rare earth elements, the time igneous rocks and its commercial types are
between a mining company’s decision to Muscovite (white) and Phlogopite (brown).
acquire a property and the start of Powdered mica is used in coating and
production can be several years or longer. roofing.
There is no fast way to open a new mining
• India is the largest producer of mica and
property.
supplies about 80 per cent of the world’s
• If a single country controls almost all of the output. Bihar, Jharkhand and Rajasthan are
production and makes a firm decision not the principal mica-producing states. Other
to export, then the entire supply of a mica-producing states are West Bengal,
commodity can be quickly cut off. That is a Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala,
dangerous situation when new sources of Karnataka, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
supply take so long to develop.
• Brazil is also having large mica deposits. In
• In 2010 China significantly restricted their Brazil mica occurs in a 480 km long and 190
rare earth exports. That was done to ensure km wide belt along the Atlantic coast. Minas
a supply of rare earths for domestic
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Gerais, Sao Paulo, Matto Grasso, Goiaz and
Paribas are having mica-producing areas.
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• USA, Canada, Russia, Czech Republic,
buying and some rare earth prices shot up
Slovakia, France, Sweden, Norway, China,
exponentially. In addition, Japan, the United
Australia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
States, and the European Union complained
and Malaysia are other producers of mica.
to the World Trade Organization about
China’s restrictive rare earth trade policies. Asbestos
World Rare Earth Mineral Resources • Asbestos is found in the veins of igneous
rocks and is a silky and fibrous mineral. Its
• “Rare earths are relatively abundant in the
main ores are Chrysolite and Actinolite. It is
Earth’s crust, but discovered minable
used to make fireproof material, industrial
concentrations are less common than for
cloths, protective clothing, etc. It is also
most other ores. U.S. and world resources
used for brake-linings, safety sheets,
are contained primarily in bastnäsite and
roofing sheets and tiles, insulating boards,
monazite. Bastnäsite deposits in China and
firemen’s ropes, special papers and
the United States constitute the largest
asbestos cement. Russia, Ukraine, Canada,
percentage of the world’s rare-earth
South Africa, Zimbabwe, China, Italy and
economic resources, while monazite
Brazil are the main producers.
deposits in Australia, Brazil, China, India,
Malaysia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Phosphate
and the United States constitute the second • Phosphate occurs in sedimentary rocks or
largest segment. as phosphatic nodules. Another source is
• Apatite, cheralite, eudialyte, loparite, bird droppings or guano. The phosphate is
phosphorites, rare-earth-bearing (ion the most important source of phosphorus
adsorption) clays, secondary monazite, and is mainly used in fertiliser. It is also used
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• ChinaChina ranks first in the world in coal produces some inferior variety of coal.
production. Nearly 38 per cent of world’s 4. The South-Western coalfields: Several small
coal output is from China. All types of coal and isolated coal mines are distributed over
are found, including anthracite, bituminous Sikiang and Yunan region.
coal and lignite.
5.
The Manchurian fields: These coalfields are
scattered in the north-eastern region of
China. The coalfields are located in the
provinces of the Liaoning, Heilungkiang,
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The United States of America is the second
largest producer of coal in the world. It
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The main coal-producing areas of USA are coal producer in Australia is New South
as follows: Wales, which contributes more than half of
i. The Appalachian Coalfields: The the Australian production. The other
Appalachian Coalfields, reaching almost notable coal-producing regions are
without a break from northern Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania. Both
Pennsylvania into northern Alabama, bituminous coal and lignite are produced in
contain the finest bituminous coal lands of Australia.
the world. Russia
ii. Eastern Interior Coalfields: The Eastern • Russia is the fifth largest coal-producing
Interior Coalfield is situated in Southern country of the world. Its share in world
Illinois, Southern Indiana and Western production is 5 per cent. The main coal-
Kentuky of USA and is famous for producing areas are Kuznestsk basin, Ural-
bituminous coal. The bituminous coal is not region, Moscow-Tula region, Pechora basin,
of as good quality as that of the Appalachian Eastern Siberia and Northern Siberia.
fields, but it is useful for steam and domestic Europe
purposes.
• In Europe coal-producing countries are
iii. Northern Interior Coalfields: Michigan state Poland, Germany, United Kingdom, France,
is now the centre of coal mining in the Belgium and the Netherlands.
interior province.
Poland
iv. Western Interior Coalfields: This field, like
• Poland is now an important coal-producing
its counterpart, the Eastern Interior field
country not only of Europe but also of the
across the Mississippi, has important coal
world and ranks 9th in the world. It produces
deposits of bituminous and subbituminus.
2.5 per cent of the world’s coal output. The
The coal in Western Interior field is below
major coalfields of Poland are Upper Silesia,
average in quality.
Krakuw and Dombrawa. Anthracite coal is
v. Southern Interior Coalfields The Southern mined in Walbrzych of Oder basin.
Interior Coalfield is of little importance even
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ofTHAN ACHING..... is another main coal-producing
western fields in Texas. It extends from country of Europe. Ruhr, Saar, Sexony and
Central Iowa to Central Texas. Silesia are the main coalfields of
Germany.The Ruhr Region is having good
vi. Rocky Mountain Coalfields Most of the
quality of coking coal. The coal belt of this
lignite coal is found in Rocky mountain field,
region is 65 km long and 16 km wide and it
which occurs in various scattered localities.
extends in the east and west of Ruhr. Saar
Only two-thirds of the United States coal
Region is having bituminous coalfields. Its
comes from western fields, along the
main deposits are in Rhineland. Saxony
eastern rim of Rockies in Colorado,
Coalfield is located in eastern part of
Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, Utah and
Germany. Halle, Magdeburg and Leapzig are
Montana.
the main coalfields.
vii. Pacific Coast Coalfields In the extreme far
United Kingdom
west of the United States between Sierra
Nevada and Ellenburg in California, Oregon • There was a time when UK was the largest
and Washington, are the most extensive coal producer in the world. But its
fields, covering more than 2000 sq km and production declined gradually due to high
producing low grade coal. production cost, low productivity,
competition with other energy sources and
Australia
other countries and also due to great depth
• Australia ranks 4th in coal production in the of coal mines. The main coalfields of UK are:
world and its contribution in world’s
(a) The Scottish Lowlands: Situated between
production is 6 per cent. In 2007, it produced
Grampian highland and Southern highland,
251 million metric tons of coal. The largest
this Clyde basin is one of the oldest and
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of coal reserves with 10.2 per cent. Other sea organisms flourished in the gulfs,
important countries having coal reserves estuaries, deltas and the land surrounding
are Australia, South Africa, Ukraine, them during this period. The decomposition
Kazakhstan, Poland and Brazil. of organic matter in the sedimentary rocks
has led to the formation of oil. Though oil is
mainly found in sedimentary rocks, all
PETROLEUM OR MINERAL OIL
sedimentary rocks do not contain oil. An oil
• The word ‘petroleum’ has been derived reservoir must have three pre-requisite
from two Latin words Petra (meaning rock) conditions :
and Oleum (meaning oil). Thus petroleum
(i) porosity so as to accommodate sufficiently
is oil obtained from rocks; particularly
large amounts of oil;
sedimentary rocks of the earth. Therefore,
it is also called mineral oil. Technically (ii) permeability to discharge oil and/or gas
speaking, petroleum is an inflammable when well has been drilled;
liquid that is composed of hydrocarbons (iii) the porous sand beds sandstone,
which constitute 90 to 95 per cent of conglomarates of fissured limestone
petroleum and the remaining is chiefly containing oil should be capped by
organic compounds containing oxygen, impervious beds so that oil does not get
nitrogen, sulphur and traces of organo- dissipated by percolation in the surrounding
metallic compounds. Crude petroleum rocks.
consists of a mixture of hydrocarbons — • Oil on a commercial scale is usually found
solid, liquid and gaseous. These include where the sedimentary rock strata are
compounds belonging to the paraffin series inclined and folded; in a sort of chamber or
and also some unsaturated hydrocarbons reservoir, in the highest possible situation
and small proportion belonging to the e.g. crests of anticlines. Normally, oil is
benzene group. associated with water. Being lighter than
water (specific gravity of 0.8 to 0.98), it
Origin and Occurrence of Petroleum collects in the anticlines or fault traps above
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occurs
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in sedimentary basins, shallow depressions
one finds gas followed by oil, although gas
and in the seas (past and present). Most of
seepage is not always a sure indication of
the oil reserves in India are associated with
an oil reservoir.
anticlines and fault traps in the sedimentary
rock formations of tertiary times, about 3
million years ago. Some recent sediments, World Petroleum Reserves, Production and
less than one million years old also show Distribution
evidence of incipient oil. Oil and natural gas • The West Asia or Middle East is having the
originated from animal or vegetable matter largest petroleum reserves of the world,
contained in shallow marine sediments, which is about 60 per cent of the world’s oil
such as sands, silts and clays deposited reserves. The total estimated world’s oil
during the periods when land and aquatic reserve in 2008 was 1,243. The countries
life was abundant in various forms, having large petroleum reserves are Saudi
especially the minor microscopic forms of Arabia, Canada, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE,
flora and fauna. Conditions for oil formation Venezuela, Russia, Libya, Nigeria,
were favourable especially in the lower and Kazakhstan, USA, China, Qatar, Algeria,
middle Tertiary period. Dense forests and Brazil and Mexico.
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Saudi Arabia 267 42.4 10.2 1,620
Canada 179 28.5 3.3 520
Iran 138 21.9 4.0 640
Iraq 115 18.3 2.1 330
Kuwait 104 16.5 2.6 410
UAE 98 15.6 2.9 460
Venezuela 87 13.8 2.7 430
Russia 60 9.5 9.9 1,570
Libya 41 6.5 1.7 270
Nigeria 36 5.7 2.4 380
Kazakhstan 30 4.8 1.4 220
USA 21 3.3 7.5 1,190
China 16 2.5 3.9 620
Qatar 15 2.4 0.9 140
Algeria 12 1.9 2.2 350
Brazil 12 1.9 2.3 370
Mexico 12 1.9 3.5 560
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1. West Asia or Middle East Region 2. American Region
3. Russian Region 4. Eastern and South Asian Region
5. African Region
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West Asia or Middle East Region and it produces more than 12 per cent of
• The West Asian region is the largest the total world output of oil. The first oil
petroleum-producing region of the world. well in Saudi Arabia was started in 1938 at
It also has the largest oil reserves of the Dammam. The major oilfields of Saudi
world, which is more than 60 per cent of the Arabia are Ghawar, Abquiaq, Qatif,
total world reserves. The main oil-producing Dammam, Ain Dar, Abu Hadriya, Kharsaniya,
countries of this region are Saudi Arabia, etc. Ghawar is the largest oilfield in the
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman world which spreads over 10,000 sq km area.
and Abu Dhabi, etc. The crude oil is refined at Ras Tanura and
sent through 1,700 km long pipeline to Sidon
• Saudi Arabia: The largest oil producer, not
for further export.
only of the Middle East but also of the world
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• Iran: Iran is the second largest oil producer in Iraq are Kirkuk, Mosul, Daura and Az
of the Middle East and ranks 4th in the Zubayr.
world. It produces about 5.3 per cent of
• United Arab Emirates: UAE, which is
world oil production and its oil reserves are
comprised of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah,
8.6 per cent of the world. The main oilfields
Ajman, etc., has about 10 per cent of the
of Iran are Masjid-i-Sulaiman, Najt & Shah,
world reserves. The leading oilfields are
Aghajari, Lali, Bahregan, Eyden & Naftun,
Fateh, Bumusa, A1 Bundag, Murban, Bu-
Gach Saran, Hajt & Kel, etc.
hasa, etc.
• Kuwait: Kuwait is having about 8 per cent of
The other oil producers of the Middle East
oil reserves of the world and produces more
region are Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.
than 3 per cent of the world’s total oil
production. The oilfields are situated American Region
almost over entire Kuwait. The Burghan field • American petroleum-producing region is
is the richest oilfield. The other major having three distinct areas, i.e., (i) North
oilfields are Mina-al-ahmadi, Wafra, America, (ii) Central America, and (iii) South
Burgan, Magwa, Sabriya, Mingish, etc. America.
• Iraq: Iraq has more than 7 per cent of the • In North America, USA and Canada are the
world reserves of petroleum and ranks 14th petroleum-producing countries. On the
in oil production in the world. Major oilfields other hand, Mexico is the major producer
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Orinoco basin.
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v. The South-western Region: In the south- • Columbia is self-sufficient in oil production.
western part of the United States, from just Maracaibo basin and Magdalena valley are
the Gulf of California, considerable amount the important oil-producing areas.
of crude oil is extracted from the wells. • Peru, Argentina and Chile are also producing
vi. The Kuparuk Oilfield in Alaska: This is a new limited quantity of petroleum.
oilfield where production started in the Russian Region
1980s. It has been estimated that the total
• In undivided USSR oil production was
reserve of this field may exceed the reserve
started as early as in 1870, around the shores
of even the north-eastern region.
of the Caspian Sea. In the 1930s three-
Canada quarters of the oil production came from
• Canada is having the second largest oil the Baku fields and another 15 per cent from
reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia. the Grozny and Maikop fields. The new
Its estimated reserve of oil is 179 (109 bbl). centres have been discovered in Volga and
In terms of production Canada accounts for Urals. Presently, the main oilfields are:
about 3 per cent of the world’s oil output. It (i) Volga-Caspian Region
is a surplus oil-producing country and
(ii) Kamchatka-Sakhalin Region
exports some of its production. Alberta
province provides three-fourths of its (iii) Ob-Lena Basin
production. The other oil-producing states (iv) Pechora Region
are Saskatchewan, British Columbia and • Kazakhstan is having 30 (109 bbl) oil reserves
Manitoba. and ranks 11 th in the world oil reserve
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Canada country.
• Canada is a significant producer of natural Europe
gas, securing third place in the world with • In Europe Norway, United Kingdom, Italy,
5.50 per cent of the world’s production. The France and Netherlands are the important
major gas fields of Canada are situated at natural gas-producing countries.
Alberta and British Columbia States.
Africa
West Asian Region
• Algeria is the leading natural gas producer.
In West Asia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, Qatar It contributes more than 70 per cent of the
and Iraq are the main natural gas producers. total African output. Reserves of Algeria are
• Iran possesses the second position in world’s the ninth largest in the world.
gas reserve (991 trillion cubic feet). In 2008, • Egypt, Nigeria, Gabon, South Africa and
it produced 4107 billion cubic feet of natural Tunisia are other natural gas-producing
gas. countries of Africa.
• Saudi Arabia is fourth in gas reserves in the • Some other notable natural gas-producing
world and its natural gas production in 2008 countries are Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
was 2841 billion cubic feet. Kazakhstan and Venezuela.
• UAE is 6th in terms of natural gas reserves
with 214 trillion cubic feet. Bu-Musa, A1
Electricity
Bandus are the major gas fields.
•Although India set up its first power plant
• Qatar and Iraq are other important natural
over a century ago and the electrification of
gas-producing countries in the world.
Kolkata began within just a decade after that
Eastern and Southern Asian Countries of London, power development could truly
China has emerged as a major natural gas- take off only after Independence. The
producing country. In 2008, China’s power sector registered an impressive
production of natural gas was 2685 billion growth by over 100 times during 63 years
cubic feet. Thus China ranks 10th in the from 1950-51 to 2013-14. The installed
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capacity rose from 2.3 thousand MW in 1950-
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Indonesia is another leading gas-producing 51 to 243.0 thousand MW by 2013-14 and
country with 13th position in the world. In generation from 6.6 billion kWh to 961.5
2008, it produced 2472 billion cubic feet of billion kWh during the same period.
gas. However, India still lags far behind
regarding consumption of electricity. The
Bangladesh is another leading gas-
per capita consumption in India was only
producing country. Here, huge natural gas
393 kWh in 2011-12 as against 3,481 kWh in
reserves have been found in the eastern
Britain, 6,434 kWh in Sweden and 6,550 kWh
hilly region.
in the USA and the world average of-1,000
Pakistan is also a surplus gas-producing kWh.
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• Thirteen countries in 2017 produced at least one-quarter of their electricity from nuclear. France
gets around three-quarters of its electricity from nuclear energy; Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine
get more than half from nuclear, whilst Belgium, Sweden, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Switzerland,
Finland and Czech Republic get one-third or more. South Korea normally gets more than 30% of
its electricity from nuclear, while in the USA, UK, Spain, Romania and Russia about one-fifth of
electricity is from nuclear. Japan is used to relying on nuclear power for more than one-quarter
of its electricity and is expected to return to somewhere near that level.
Nuclear Generation by Country 2017
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• Pakistan has five operable nuclear reactors, • The challenges and recent activities mainly
with a combined net capacity of 1.4 GWe. In result from the development of
2017, nuclear generated 6% of the country’s technologies that use renewable energy
electricity. Pakistan has two Chinese sources and activities aimed at reducing the
Hualong One units under construction. emission of harmful substances into the
Africa atmosphere.
• South Africa has two operable nuclear • The new challenges are a decisive impulse
reactors, with a combined net capacity of for introducing changes in power plants and
1.8 GWe, and is the only African country combined heat and power plants, as well as
currently producing electricity from nuclear. for the implementation and continuous
In 2017, nuclear generated 7% of the development of new technologies allowing
country’s electricity. South Africa remains for the electricity and heat production in the
committed to plans for further capacity, but least harmful way to the environment.
financing constraints are significant. • In recent years, many activities have been
Middle East observed to reduce pollutant emissions and
optimize the performance of thermal power
• Iran has a single operable nuclear reactor
plants. Ensuring a continuous supply of
with a net capacity of 0.9 GWe. In 2017,
electricity and heat is necessary and
nuclear generated 2% of the country’s
requires a continuous monitoring of all
electricity.
processes and conduct of maintenance and
• The United Arab Emirates is building four optimization works.
1450 MWe South Korean reactors at a cost
• Based on the data provided by International
of over $20 billion, and is collaborating
Energy Agency , we can observe how
closely with the International Atomic Energy
electricity generation during almost last
Agency and experienced international
50 years is changing. Total electricity
firms.
generation was increased almost 6 times,
Emerging nuclear energy countries reaches in 2015 value 24,255 TWh, with the
• As outlined above, Bangladesh, GUIDANCE
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constructing their first nuclear power plants. energy sources includes mainly geothermal,
A number of other countries are moving solar, wind, ocean, biofuels, and waste was
towards use of nuclear energy for power increased from 0.6 to 7.1% of total
production. For more information, see page electricity generation sources. Despite
on Emerging Nuclear Energy Countries. these changes and the intensive
development of technologies based on
renewable energy sources, fossil fuels still
THERMAL ELECTRICITY dominate. Current trends indicate the
• The largest share of sources for electricity continuous use of coal (39.3% in 2015) as
generation still belongs to fossil fuels such the main source and a large increase of
as coal, natural gas, and oil. Conventional natural gas utilization (22.9% in 2015).
thermal power plants based on the fossil
fuel combustion are currently facing new
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Different challenges for a thermal power plant • Waste management - Thermal power plant
are :- that use coal as fuel face the problem of
• Availability of vast area of land- Thermal waste dispose. Fly ash , bottom ash etc.
power plants are gigantic in size and require result in lungs and other diseases when they
vast area of land to set up different units. are inhaled.
• Availability of natural resources- Its an • Water used by cooling towers- Electric
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companies prefer to use cooling water from
the ocean, a lake, or a river, or a cooling
resources in abundance and in good M reach
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makes the production more economical. pond, instead of a cooling tower. This type
of cooling can save the cost of a cooling
• Availability of Water- Primary mover in these
tower and may have lower energy costs for
plants are usually steam driven, so it is
pumping cooling water through the plant’s
important that the plant has good supply of
heat exchangers. Water consumption by
water.
power stations is a developing issue.
• Boiler design and efficiency- Boilers are one
• Environmental impacts- Coal and coal waste
of the most important part of the plant,
products releases toxic chemicals including
selecting the design is the crucial part as it
arsenic, lead, mercury , cadmium , zinc ,
directly affect the overall efficiency of
copper, selenium , barium , chromium
plant.
which are dangerous when released in
• Turbine and Re-heaters- The most technical atmosphere. Approximately 75 Tg/S per
challenge in power plant. Turbines must be year of Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) is released from
designed in such way so that they work at burning coal. After release, the Sulfur
high pressure and as well as low pressure. Dioxide is oxidized to gaseous H2SO2 which
• Safety of labors- Thermal power plant are scatters solar radiation, hence their increase
one of the most hazardous place to work. in the atmosphere exerts a cooling effect
Safety of labors should be given top priority on climate that masks some of the warming
as they work under elevated temp and high caused by increased greenhouse gases.
pressure steam. Release of SO2 also contributes to the
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Background stoppage
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production or supply of oil, can
Energy crisis can be brought about by many cause major upheavals in economy.
factors: organized labour strikes, embargoes • In October 1973, the Organization of
by governments, over-consumption, aging Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
infrastructure, and bottlenecks at raised the prices of oil from $ 1.5 per barrel
production centers and port facilities. to $ 7 per barrel. The reasons given were
Pipeline failures and other accidents may that oil prices were not in tune with the
cause minor interruptions to energy increase in prices of other commodities and
supplies. A crisis could possibly emerge that the countries wanted to make
after infrastructure damage from severe maximum profits while the limited reserves
weather. lasted. In 1979, the Iranian revolution
Attacks by terrorists on important caused a disruption in oil supplies.
infrastructure are a possible problem for • The price in dollars per barrel shot up to 24
energy consumers: a successful strike on a in 1979, 34 in 1981 before stabilizing at
West Asian facility could potentially cause around 20. Because of the hike, economies
global shortages. Political events—change were hit worldwide. The worst sufferers
of governments due to regime change, were the developing countries which did
monarchy collapse, military occupation or a not have enough foreign exchange reserves
coup—may disrupt oil and gas production to pay for oil imports. In the ensuing
and create shortages. economic crisis, there were demands for
The world over, the economy has come to higher wages, and cost of living went up.
be heavily dependent on oil consumption. • Once again in 1990, there was a price hike
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4. Easier Grid Access: People who use 7. Population Contol- Energy demands are and
different options to generate power must will be amplified by the demographic - the
be given permission to plug into the grid world’s population should reach nearly 10
and getting credit for power you feed into billion people in 2050 - and economic boom
it. The hassles of getting credit of supplying of growing areas. According to the
surplus power back into the grid should be International Energy Agency (IEA), global
removed. Apart from that, subsidy on solar energy demand could increase by more
panels should be given to encourage more than 50% by 2030 in the absence of public
people to explore renewable options. policies in this area. So, to avoid the
5. Energy Simulation: Energy simulation catastrophe of energy shortage(neo-
software can be used by big corporates and malthusian view) the is an urgent need to
corporations to redesign building unit check the rapid growling population.
and reduce running business energy cost. 8. Common Stand on Climate Change: Both
Engineers, architects and designers could developed and developing countries should
use this design to come with most energy adopt a common stand on climate change.
efficient building and reduce carbon They should focus on reducing greenhouse
footprint. gas emissions through an effective cross
6. Perform Energy Audit: Energy audit is a border mechanism. With current population
process that helps you to identify the areas growth and over consumption of resources,
where your home or office is losing energy the consequences of global warming and
and what steps you can take to improve climate change cannot be ruled out. Both
energy efficiency. Energy audit when done developed and developing countries must
by a professional can help you to reduce your focus on emissions cuts to cut their emission
carbon footprint, save energy and money levels to half from current levels by 2050.
and avoid energy crisis.
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4. The Limits to Growth • The model is based on the thesis that “the
continued growth leads to infinite
quantities that just do not fit into a finite
Introduction: world.” This basic idea has been elaborated
• The earth’s interlocking resources – the in a highly complicated model which cannot
global system of nature in which we all live be easily described in equation form. This
– probably cannot support present rates of is because the many relations between the
economic and population growth much five variables are not rectilinear.
beyond the year 2100, if that long, even with • The multipliers in question depend on the
advanced technology level of the variables. Among the various
• In 1968, a group of about seventy five relationships, there are “feedback loops”
persons belonging to different strata of that register the effects of changes in one
society from around the world founded the variable such as food production on another
Club of Rome. They examined the five basic variable like population growth. For
factors that determine and, in their example, population growth is positively
interactions, ultimately limit growth on this related to food production. But food
planet-population increase, agricultural production is negatively related to
production, non -renewable resource pollution, and pollution, in turn, is positively
depletion, industrial output, and pollution related to industrial output. The model also
generation. uses past data on such factors as growth rates
• It believed that the possibilities of of population, industrial output and
continuous growth have been exhausted agricultural production, and the estimates
and timely action is essential in order to of rates of technological progress. These
avert a planetary collapse. factors would lead to the use of new
resources, raise agricultural productivity
• It chose its initial theme “The Predicament and control pollution.
of Mankind” in June 1970. It commissioned
the research by four MIT scientists led by
Donald Meadows which was GUIDANCE
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the Club of Rome as The Limits to Growth
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assumptions of the model are based on
1972. The second report entitled Beyond highly non-linear relations:
Limits was published in 1992 which gave 1. Population increase (the difference
fresh evidences as to how mankind has between the birth rate and the death rate)
crossed beyond the limits. is influenced by crowding, food intake,
The Model: pollution, and the material standard of
• It was Jay Forester of MIT who in his book living. A rise in any of these four factors
World Dynamics published in 1971 devised tends to drive the birth rate downwards. The
a model that investigates the interplay of death rate decreases with increasing food
such highly aggregated variables as world intake and the material standard of living,
population, industrial world production, and increases with increasing pollution and
food supply, pollution and natural resources crowding.
still remaining in the world. 2. The material standard of living depends on
• Using the “system dynamics” methodology the level of capital, relative to the size of
of Forester, the authors of the Limits to the population and the productivity of
Growth constructed an elaborate computer capital.
model of the world. They presented a large 3. Non-renewable resources are continually
and new type of model designed to predict used up by the production process. The
the future development of five global inter- lower the level of non-renewable
related variables: population, food resources, the more capital must be
production, industrial production, non- allocated to obtaining resources, and thus
renewable resources and pollution. the productivity of capital for producing
finished goods is less.
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• In Panel (B), the growth of population and pollution level which continues to rise
food supply are measured on the vertical beyond the year 2010 and if not checked in
axis and are represented by the P and F time, will lead to catastrophic results in the
curves respectively. They are shown to world.
increase up to point E at the same rate from
1900 to 2000 year. But beyond the year 2000,
the population curve P continues to rise, It’s Criticisms:
while the food production curve F rises at a • The Limits to Growth was an alarming report
diminishing rate and then starts declining predicting the collapse of the world
by 2100. In Panel (C), the curve PL shows the economy in the 21st century. It sold ten
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found that 38 percent, or nearly 1.4 billion • Fifty-four nations experienced declines in
acres, of currently used agricultural land has per capita GDP for more than a decade
been degraded. during the period 1990–2001.
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These are symptoms of a world in them or render them harmless. They are
overshoot, where we are drawing on the leading us toward global environ- mental
world’s resources faster than they can be and economic collapse—but there may still
restored, and we are releasing wastes and be time to address these problems and
pollutants faster than the Earth can absorb soften their impact.
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practised in the tropics by many different Crops are sown at calculated intervals, often
peoples and thus has many different between the other plants, so that the
names, e.g., milpa in Central America and harvest can be staggered to provide food
parts of Africa, conuco in Venezuela, roca in all the year round. Much the same types of
Brazil, masole in Zaiire, ladang in Malaysia, crops are grown in all the farms.
humah in Indonesia, caingin in the (vi) Short periods of crop occupance alternate
Phillippines, taungya in Burma, tamrai in with long periods of fallowing. When the
Thailand, bewar or poda in India and chena yields can no longer support the community
in Sri Lanka. because of soil exhaustion or the invasion
Characteristics of weeds and shrubs, the fields are
The primitive subsistence agriculture or abandoned and fresh areas cleared. ‘Field
shifting cultivation is characterised by the rotation’ rather than ‘crop rotation’ is
following features: practised.
(i) Sites for the ladang are usually selected in (vii) This form of ‘migratory agriculture’ still
the virgin forest by the experienced elders. supports many of the aboriginal tribes of
Hill slopes are preferred because of better the tropical rain forest, despite the efforts
drainage. Many ladangs are located in the made by the local govern-ments to resettle
remote interiors, far from the main them. The exhaustion of soil nutrients,
population centres. This is partly for deterioration of the lightly constructed
historical reasons as most shifting bamboo houses, attack by insect-pests,
cultivators have been forced into less diseases or wild animals are some of the
favourable areas by the expansion of more major reasons that make migration a
advanced farmers into the lower and better necessity.
lands. Their isolation hinders their progress • A more advanced form of subsistence
and makes the spread of new ideas more farming is ‘sedentary subsistence
difficult. agriculture’ in tropical lowlands, where the
(ii) The forests are usually cleared by fire and fallowed fields are frequently reused and
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the men or left to decay naturally. Shifting places and greater attention is given to the
cultivation is thus also called ‘slash-and- land and the crops sown. Methods of tillage
burn agriculture’. are more intensive, though crude hand
implements are often still used and there
(iii) The cultivated patches are usually very
is a greater employment of manpower in
small, about 0.5-1 hectare (1-3 acres)
the fields. This type of economy is capable
scattered in their distribution and separated
of sustaining a relatively larger population
from one another by dense forests or bush.
on a permanent basis. Many more animals
(iv) Cultivation is done with very primitive tools are kept, including buffaloes, swine and
such as sticks and hoes, without the aid of horses, and animals are used for drought
machines or even drought animals. Much purposes on the farm as well as to supply
manual labour is needed in land clearance milk or meat. Crops are sown in the cool
to produce food for a few people. Thus, season and grown throughout the rainy
despite the fact that little attention is given period to be harvested in the dry season.
to the crops when they are once planted, Many sedentary farmers in Central America
no other form of farming is so wasteful of and South-East Asia also find jobs on
human energy and so unrewarding as plantations and return to their homes
shifting cultivation. periodi-cally with their earnings. In South-
(v) Few crops are raised in the ladangs. The East Asia and West Africa subsistence
main crops are starchy foods, e.g., tapioca, farming may be combined with the
cassava or manioc, yams, maize or corn, cultivation of cash crops or with the
millet, upland rice, beans and bananas. collection and sale of forest products.
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(ix) Plantation agriculture often encourages (iii) Difficulties of clearing and maintenance:
migration from other countries. In colonial The hot, wet, tropical climates
period thousands of people migrated from encourage the growth of a wide variety
one place to another for work. In this way, of vegetation. In rain forests, for
cultural exchange occurs. instance, there is a multiplicity of
(x) Most of the crops grown in plantation species; tall trees, palms, undergrowth
agriculture have a life cycle of more than ferns and various kinds of herbaceous,
two years. Natural rubber, coconuts, oil epiphytic and parasitic plants. A dense
palm, tea, cocoa, and coffee are all tree vegetative cover is difficult to clear to
crops and take years to mature, but make way for plantations and a sound
afterwards they are productive for long communication network. It is even more
periods. expensive to prevent forest shrubs and
trees encroaching on such clearings.
• Although plantation agriculture is
Large sums of money are needed
advantageous and profitable to owners. But
annually for the repair of estate roads
there are several problems of plantation
and railways.
agriculture. The major problems or
difficulties are as follows: (iv)Rapid deterioration of tropical soil: Under
tropical conditions of heavy rainfall,
(i) Climatic hazards: The climatic
mineral nutrients in the soil are carried
requirements of crops like rubber, cocoa
downwards with the rain water as it
and oil palm, which need constantly
sinks into the ground. This leaching
high temperatures, high relative
process proceeds very rapidly and
humidity and very heavy rainfall, are
magnesium, potassium and calcium are
unfortunately, those least suited to
removed. The red lateritic soils that are
human activ-ities. The heat and high
so familiar in tropical lands are thus,
humidity sap human energy and reduce
rather infertile. Overexploitation and
the amount of work people can do. Local
absence of crop rotation depletes soil
winds like the harmattan, hurricanes and
fertility and increases soil erosion.
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excessive rainfall or an extended (3) Mediterranean Agriculture
drought can also reduce output or • The term ‘Mediterranean agriculture’
damage trees. In marginal sub-tropical applies to the agriculture done in those
areas frost is a major hazard. Coffee regions which are having Mediterranean
production in Brazil has frequently type of climate. Mediterranean agriculture
suffered from the effects of unexpected is unique because it is a mixture of diverse
frosts. biocultural activities (both animal
(ii) Prevalence of diseases and insect pests: husbandry and crop farming) that has
The tropics with their hot, humid developed in five major world regions. This
conditions, encourage the growth of type of agriculture is determined by climatic
insects and bacteria and also the spread conditions, which exert such an influence
of diseases. Consequently plantations that both traditional and commercial
may suffer from uncontrollable agriculture flourish with a dominance of the
outbreaks of plant diseases, e.g., coffee agriculture of citrus fruits along with
blights, or the depredations by insect horticulture and floriculture.
pests such as the boll-weevil of the Location
cotton plantations. At the same time the
• There are five major regions in the world
labour force is also prone to virus
having Mediterranean type of agriculture.
diseases such as fevers which reduce
The largest of these nearly encircles the
productivity. In some areas malaria has
Mediterranean Sea - and it is from there that
not yet been completely eradicated.
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the world are as follows: 635 mm (15—25 inches) and where summer
(i) The Mediterranean Basin: France, Spain, droughts may last for more than six months.
Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Fruits are sometimes raised on unirrigated
Israel, Northern Nile valley, i.e., all the ground and draw their moisture supply from
regions around Mediter-ranean Sea deep in the soil. Irrigation is, however,
practised in many areas, especially
(ii) California in USA
California, Israel and parts of France, Spain
(iii) Central Chile and Italy. Olives and figs are indigenous to
(iv) Southern part of South Africa the Mediterranean region and can survive
(v) Lower Murray - Darling basin of South even on thin, calcareous soil with very little
Australia precipitation.
Characteristics (b) Viticulture: Viticulture or grape cultivation
is a speciality of the Mediterranean region.
(i) The natural setting that lends itself to It represents a very intensive form of
Mediterranean agriculture is distin-guished farming requiring not only good conditions
by erratic rainfall, mild temperatures, of moisture, temperature and soil but also
irregular topography, and nearness to large much personal care, if the grapes are to be
water bodies. of high quality. Grapes raised in different
(ii) In this type, farming is intensive, highly parts of the Mediterranean lands have
specialised and varied in the kinds of crops distinctive flavours and wines made in the
raised. Subsistence agriculture occurs side various areas maintain their exclusive
by side with commercial farming. Many names, e.g., sherry from the Andalusia
crops such as wheat, barley and vegetables district of southern Spain, port wine from
are raised for domestic consumption, while the Doura basin of western Portugal,
others like citrus fruits, olives, and grapes marsala from the Isle of Sicily, anti from the
are mainly for export. The Mediterranean Chianti Hills of Tuscany, asti from the
lands are also known as ‘orchard lands of Piedmont district of northern Italy. In
the world’.The land use in these areas is France, where wine-making is a national
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not ING..... a Mediterranean climate, the
summer drought, availability of melting specialisation is even more distinct. The
snow, local soil conditions, and price great variation in relief, climate, soil and
fluctuations in local and world market. methods of preparation has produced many
(iii) The four main aspects of Mediterranean famous wines. The sparkling Champagne
agriculture are: (a) orchard farming, (b) comes from the Paris basin; Burgundy from
viticulture, (c) cereal and vegetable the limestone scarplands of the Cote d’Or;
cultivation, and (d) limited animal Claret, Brandy (Cognac), Barsac and
husbandry. Bordeaux from different parts of western
France, especially the basin of Aquitaine.
(a) Orchard farming: It represents a highly
Wines are also produced in the
specialised commercial agriculture here.
Mediterranean lands of Australia, South
The world supply of citrus fruits, olives and
Africa and South America, though these are
figs comes almost exclusively from
not as famous.
Mediterranean lands. Fruit culture has long
been a traditional Mediterranean (c) Cereal and vegetable cultivation: In acreage,
occupation because of the very special cereal crops are the most important in
climatic features in Mediterranean areas. Mediterranean agriculture. Wheat,
Citrus fruits (oranges, lemons, grapefruits), especially hard winter wheat, is the
olives and figs, which have long, wide- principal food grain, and barley is grown in
spreading roots, scant foliage and fruits with the poorer areas. In most Mediterranean
thick skins are best adapted to the countries cereals often occupy about half
Mediterranean type of climate where the total cultivated acreage and provide
annual precipi-tation can be as low as 380— enough grain for home consumption. The
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warm and sunny Mediterranean climate they can be fed on skim milk and other
also allows a wide range of other food crops leftovers from the farm.
and green vegetables to be harvested. Location
Beans, lentils, onions, tomatoes, carrots,
• The two most extensive regions of mixed
sugar beet and all the leafy vegetables of
farming are in Eurasia and the United States
the warm temperate latitudes are grown.
(Figure 4.6). This activity takes up more land
The seeds are sown in autumn when the
than any other type of bioculture in Europe
showers come and cultivation continues
and is prevalent eastward in an ever
into the following year, maintaining a
narrowing belt that stretches from the
constant supply to the urban markets.
Atlantic to the Pacific, with only one
(d) Limited animal husbandry: Mediterranean interruption in Eastern Siberia. This belt is
agriculture is also charac-terised by limited the thickest between Ukraine and central
animal husbandry, which survives on Finland.
grasslands available here. In areas like
• In United States mixed farming is the second
Lombardy plain, Ebro basin, San Joaquin
most extensive type of agriculture, and
valley of California, dairy farming is
covers a large part of eastern half of the
important. In mountain areas the practice
country. It extends through Ohio, Indiana,
of ‘transhumance’, moving the cattle up to
Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska on the north, and
mountain pastures in the summer and
Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Oklahoma
returning them to the valleys in winter, is
and much of Texas on the south. A small area
very common.
in Pacific North-West also has mixed
farming.
(4) Mixed Farming • Other regions of mixed farming are: Mexico,
• In mixed farming, a farmer combines the South America and Southern Africa.
cultivation of crops and the domesti-cation Characteristics
of animals and gets income from both.
(i) The mixed farming is done for
Mixed farming can, therefore, serve as a
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type of mixed farming provides greater (c) for commercial sale.
security than the growing of a single crop as
in the extensive prairie wheat farms may (ii) In mixed farming about 90 per cent land is
suffer from market fluctuations and crop devoted to agriculture.
failures. Mixed farms are moderate in size (iii) In mixed farming crop rotation is followed
and usually grow arable crops such as in order to maintain soil fertility.
wheat, barley, oats or rye. Many practise (iv) The sequence of cultivation in mixed
crop rotation, growing root crops, like farming is cereal and vegetable production
turnips or potatoes, and legumes, like peas, for own consumption, followed by hay,
beans or clover, as an alter-native to cereals alfalfa, clover, etc., for livestock
in some years. This maintains the fertility consumption, and finally, some amount of
of the soil. Many mixed farms also grow cereal production, wheat, maize, etc., for
some industrial crops such as sugar beet, commercial sale.
hops, tobacco or flax. In addition to the
(v) This farming is more mechanised. The use
arable crops a herd of cattle or sheep is
of heavy machines like tractors, harrowers,
usually kept. These may be fed on the
thrashers, etc., is very common.
stubble of cereal crops, helping, with their
dung, to enrich the soil or may be fed on (vi) There is a large-scale use of both organic
fodder crops such as roots or legumes grown and inorganic fertilisers.
in the crop rotation system. Some part of (vii) The degree of commercialism varies
the farm may be kept for beef or milk and considerably. In west-central Europe, the
sheep for meat. Pigs are also often kept, northern United States, and Argentina,
especially where dairying is practised as mixed farming is highly commer-cialised,
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while in other areas the commercialisation mid-latitudes are very large, ranging from
is limited. 240 to 16,000 hectares. Though average size
of the farm in the USA is about 400 hectares.
In these areas land is cheap that makes it
(5) Commercial Grain Farming
possible for a farmer to own very large
• Commercial grain farming is an extensive holdings.
and mechanised form of agriculture. This is
(iii) Highly mechanised: The commercial grain
a development in the continental lands of
farming is highly mechanised. Cultivation
the mid-latitudes, which were once roamed
from ploughing to harvesting is often
by nomadic herdsmen. The continental
entirely mechanised. The use of tractors,
position, well away from maritime
ploughs, drills and combine harvests which
influence, and the low precipitation
reap, thresh, winnow and sack the grain all
(between 305 and 660 mm/12 and 26 inches)
in one operation is common.
make crop cultivation a calculated risk. It
was the invention of farm machinery which • Low yield per acre but high yield per man: In
enabled farmers to cultivate grain on a large this farming wheat grown gives
scale, and there is a marked specialisation comparatively low yields. The average yield
in wheat monoculture in many areas. is seldom more than 1,700 kg per hectare,
Communication with the outside world is whereas under intensive cultivation the
mainly by railways and the bulk of the grain yield is more in many countries. But
harvest is exported. because of mechanisation, less labour force
is required, therefore, yield per man is
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high.Other features of the commercial grain
• The major world regions of commercial farming are:
grain farming are shown in Figure 4.7. The
(a) Lack of irrigation
largest one, in Eurasia, stretches from Kiew
in southern Russia to Onsk in western (b) Farm ownership
Siberia in a width of about 1,000 km from (c) Prone to climatic hazards
Caucasus to Saratov on the Volga river.
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commercial grain farming. The largest area
(6) Irrigation Farming
runs from Alberta, through Saskatchewan
and Manitoba to Dakotas. Another centre is • Irrigation farming is prevalent in areas
in Kansas and spills over into neighbouring where rainfall is seasonal and confined to a
states. Smaller regions appear in eastern particular season. In all parts of the world
Washington and Oregon, eastern Illinois and there is a long dry season, when irrigation
northern Iowa. is practised.
• In south America, Argentina has a large • It is, however, the most important in
region of commercial grain farming. monsoon and the sub-tropical regions. Here
Australia has two areas, one in the south- rainfall is precarious, or is confined to one
west and another in the south-east. In fact, season only, and the tempera-tures are
commercial grain farming is a mid-latitude suitable for crop cultivation throughout the
activity and mostly done in between 30° to year. Also large populations exist here
55° N and S latitudes. whose mainstay is mostly agriculture, which
may produce nothing in drought years.
Characteristics
• One of the main advantages of farming
(i) Specialisation in single crop: Commercial
under irrigation is that the water supply
grain farming is highly specialised and
needed for the growth of crops, which is so
generally one single crop is grown. In most
uncertain in humid farming, is very largely
commercial grain regions that crop is wheat.
under the control of the farmer. Growing a
Both winter wheat and spring wheat is
crop under irrigation requires more labour
grown in these areas.
and cost than under humid farming. The
(ii) Farms are very large: The wheat farms in higher yield of the crops, however, repays
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this extra labour and cost. In the United succeeding rain will soak in. The ploughed
States the value of crops on irrigated land is land also checks the drifting of snow that
25 to 65 per cent greater per acre than in the may fall in winter. The conservation of
country as a whole. moisture is attained by the maintenance of
• The sources of irrigation water are: (i) from a layer of dust or dust-mulch over the
the rivers which may be snow-fed and yield surface of the field. This ‘mulch’ prevents
a continuous supply as in India, (ii) tanks or water from getting evaporated. Leaving the
reservoirs which may be filled during rain, land fallow in occasional years and not
(iii) the underground supply tapped allowing any weeds to grow is also
through the artesian wells in especially sometimes necessary. While the land is
suited regions as in Australia or South Africa, lying fallow, it is carefully and repeatedly
or through the ordinary dug out wells as in tilled to prevent the growth of weeds which
India, and (iv) canal irrigation now has would use up soil moisture. The ratio of
become very popular. This requires fallow years to crop years varies with the
construction of dams on rivers. In many amount and distribution of rainfall.
countries of the world, dams have been Sometimes a crop may be grown only once
constructed to provide irrigation. Large in three years.
dams have been built across the mighty • Wheat is perhaps the widest and most
rivers like Ganga, Indus, Irrawaddy, Menam, generally grown dry farming crop. It is fairly
Mekolong, Nile, San-Joaquin, etc., which drought-resistant and economic in its use
provide ample water in drier parts of the of water; and its early maturity enables it to
year for irrigation. make the best use of water stored in the
• In fact, irrigation farming is not a special soil, before it is seeded. As wheat has both
farming but it is simply a farming through winter and spring varieties, it is well-
irrigation facilities. Although, construction adapted to a wide range of climatic
of dams and canals is a costly affair but the conditions that may occur in the dry farming
same has been compensated by high lands. The wheat grown under dry farming
production of cereals and other cash crops. is of the highest baking quality.
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Irrigation enables cultivation throughout the other important crops grown chiefly as
year and the farming system is practised fodder crops.
intensively. • The most important dry farming area of the
world is in the United States, where the
(7) Dry Farming largest area is located in the Great basin,
Columbia river basin and the Snake river
• The term ‘dry farming’ was first used in
basin. Other regions where dry farming is
America to designate farming without
practised to some extent or the other are in
irrigation in a section where irrigation was
Australia, Canada, Western Asia and South
generally practised. The use of the term has
Africa.
been extended and it has come to mean
specifically the production of crops without • Agriculture is the most fundamental from
irrigation in regions of deficient rainfall. The of human activity. An area or region with
factor that distinguishes dry farming from similar functional attributes is termed as
humid farming is the limited water supply. agricultural system as a widen term which
Water being the vital thing for agriculture, emphasize on the functional attributes. An
its conservation and economic utilisation agricultural system may be single farm or
becomes of primary importance in dry group of interrelated farms having
farming agricultural practice. similarities of agricultural attributes.
• The essential part of dry farming is deep
ploughing (20 to 30 cm), to enable greater
and deeper sinking of water. This is done
immediately after the harvest, so that any
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A brief account of these agricultural regions It is carried mainly to produce food for the
is given below under separate heads. family to fulfill the needs of clothing shelter
(1) Nomadic Herding: recreation.
This is an extensive farm of animal grazing (b) It is a declining type of agriculture continues
on natural pasturage involving constant on to become less important.
seasonal migration of the nomads their (c) The main characteristics of nomadic herding
flocks nomadic handing is confined to rather is the continued movement
sparsely populated parts of the world where of people with their livestock in search of
the natural. vegetation is mainly grass. forage for the animals.
Location: (d) The Bedouin of Saudi Arabia the taurag of
Nomadic handing at present is mainly the Sahara also practice nomadic herding in
concentrated in Saharan Africa (Mauritania, the desert semi desert areas of North Africa
Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Libya, Algeria ). south west Asia.
The south western central parts of Asia the (e) The chief characteristics of nomadic herding
not pails of Scandinavian countries are described below—
(Norway, Sweden , Finland ) northern
Canada. Seasonal pattern of movement.
Characteristics: Many kinds of animals grazed.
(a) Nomadic herding ism ecological or rear Transhumance.
ecological systems of agriculture
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(e) Wheat, Maize, Rye, Barley etc are the main (i) In horticultural the farms arc small such
crops. farms arc located where communication
(f) Sheep and Goats are the most important links the consumption centers arc
animal. appreciably good. The land fruits’ vegetable
gardening is very intensively cultivated. Soil
(12) Commercial Dairy Farming:
fertilizers Mimi oldie work is done by hand
Location: labor.
• The rearing of the cattle for milk, milk (ii) The market gardens are scientifically
products (butter, cheep, condensed, dried managed to achieve optimum yields hand
milk etc) is known on daily farming. It is some returns.
mainly practiced in Europe, Northern USA,
(iii) The important vegetation region are
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark,
California Rio Ground boring of Texas Florida
Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, France, and
Netherlands, Rhone valley etc. fruits regions
Switzerland. It contributes 40% of
are west of Paris , Rhine valley lake region
agricultural income.
of Switzerland, Mendoza, Sanjuam of
Characteristics: Argentina etc. (grapes production ) south
(i) Dairying is capital intensive farming. A western Germany (apple).
modern dairy farm needs long here’s from (iv) Besides south Arab, Iraq for date. India,
the farming huge amounts for the South-East Asia for spices, pineapple,
development of infrastructural facilities mango etc.
capital is required for the punch ore of
Merits of Whittlesey’s classification of
mechanical equipments like milking
agricultural regions
machines milk freezers, feeding towers,
born silos for the storage of fodder for 1. It provides a classification and description
winters. of major agricultural regions of the world
used in atlases etc.
(ii) The size of cattle in dairies varies from
country to country from farm to farm 2. The five basic functioning forms are
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comparative
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cattle pasture is one cow after one acre. The regions is possible by plotting the system
average size of dairy cattle in north-west of the first degree of magnitude on a single
Europe is only five cows per farm. map.
(iii) Nearly 80% of the total milk production of 4. The study focuses on the observable items
the world is produced in Europe, Russia, in the agricultural landscape. .
Anglo America, Australia, New Zealand 5. The classification serves as a framework in
(Hussain 1996). which further refinements can be
(iv) Modern method of daily farming cattle suggested.
breeding herd management allow high Limitations to the classification :
yields of dairy products. A cow in temperate
1. The various bases of classification, viz., the
latitudes under normal healthy conditions
institutional, cultural and political factors
yield or much as 3000kg of milk pen year.
are not static but are continually changing
(13) Specialized Horticulture: because of changes in the local, national and
• Specialized cultivation of vegetables, fruits, global situations. So, Whittlesey’s scheme
flowers is called horticulture. has recently been modified by Thoman
Location: Fryer.
• Horticulture is well developed in the 2. Whittlesey has not taken into consideration
densely populated industrial districts of some relevant indicators like land tenancy,
north-west Europe, Britain, Denmark, land ownership, size of holdings,
Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy. fragmentation of holdings, government
policies, etc.
Characteristics:
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cereals and potatoes. Again, shifting the solves part of the problem but not all of it
land for cultivation of main crop potatoes because of the widespread use of livestock,
to early season potatoes or to luxury particularly in the developing regions, for
vegetables may well increase its draft power. A complete accounting of the
productivity in money terms, but will almost output would, therefore, also require the
certainly reduce its output in terms of inclusion of the draft power produced by
calories. livestock.
• Labour productivity means the income of
the population engaged in agriculture, and THE MEASUREMENT OF AGRICULTURAL
can be measured in terms of output per PRODUCTIVITY
worker. It takes into account all the labour
• The measurement of agricultural
which contributes to agriculture production,
productivity is not a simple task as it deals
the labour that is used directly on the farm
with to establish a relationship between
as well as that used indirectly off the farming
output and input in agricultural production.
producing the materials and services used
Inputs committed to agriculture have a
on agricultural production.”
complex phenomenon which governs
• Labour productivity is in fact the most farming efficiency.
common form of income measurements,
• Stamp (1960), while attempting to measure
and is usually implied in economic
crop productivity per unit area emphasized
discussions. For ascertaining the output per
that the areal differences in crop
man it is one of the major determinants of
productivity are the result partly of the
the general level of economic welfare,
natural advantages of soil and climate and
labour productivity is a significant. yardstick
partly of the farming efficiency.” Farming
of economic progress.
efficiency refers to the properties and
• Capital productivity of agriculture is qualities of various inputs, the manner in
particularly complicated to compute and which they are combined and utilized for
difficult to interpret This is largely because production and effective market demand for
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output. The assessment of agricultural
agriculture production: for land purchase productivity
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and for improvements, land reclamation, scholars working in different disciplines
drainage, irrigation, farm building, like, geography, economies, agricultural
mechanical power, machinery and economics and agricultural sciences, for a
implements, livestock, feeds, seeds, long time. Many attempts have been made
fertilizers, crop protection chemicals etc. to measure and quantify agricultural
The presence or absence of amount, quality productivity in India as well as other
and price of each factor of production varies countries of the world.
spatially, affecting the relationship between
• Thompson (1926) while measuring the
them and their deployment on individual
relative productivity of Birtish and Danish
farms.
farming emphasized and expressed it in
• The productivity of livestock is again more terms of gross output of crops and livestock.
difficult to measure than the productivity He considered the following seven
of land. The difficulty arises both in the parameters:
measurement of the input and output.
(i) The yield per acre of crops, (ii) the livestock
Much of the livestock production results in
per 100 acres (iii)the gross production or
more than one end product: Cattle may
output per 100 acres, (iv) the proportion of
produce milk, beef and hides, sheep may
arable land, (v) the number of persons
produce wool and meat etc. A comparison
employed, (vi) the cost of production
to say, the milk output of specialized dairy
expressed in terms of wages and labour
cows with that of dual purpose animals kept
costs, rent or interest, and (vii) prices
for both milk and beef may be misleading.
relative profitability and general economic
To aggregate the output of all livestock
conditions.
products, with suitable price weights,
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secondary nutrients such as sulfur, zinc, alleviate poverty in poor and developing
copper, manganese, calcium, magnesium countries, where agriculture often employs
and molybdenum on deficient soil the greatest portion of the population. As
• Education in management and farms become more productive, the wages
entrepreneurial techniques to decrease earned by those who work in agriculture
fixed and variable costs and optimise increase. At the same time, food prices
manpower decrease and food supplies become more
stable. Labourers therefore have more
• Liming of acid soils to raise pH and to
money to spend on food as well as other
provide calcium and magnesium
products. This also leads to agricultural
• Irrigation growth. People see that there is a greater
• Herbicides opportunity to earn their living by farming
• Genetic engineering and are attracted to agriculture either as
owners of farms themselves or as
• Pesticides labourers.
• Increased plant density • However, it is not only the people
• Animal feed made more digestible by employed in agriculture who benefit from
processing increases in agricultural productivity. Those
• Keeping animals indoors in cold weather employed in other sectors also enjoy lower
food prices and a more stable food supply.
Their wages may also increase.
Importance of agricultural productivity
• Agricultural productivity is becoming
• The productivity of a region’s farms is increasingly important as the world
important for many reasons. Aside from population continues to grow. India, one of
providing more food, increasing the the world’s most populous countries, has
productivity of farms affects the region’s taken steps in the past decades to increase
prospects for growth and competitiveness its land productivity. Forty years ago, North
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distribution and savings, GUIDANCE IAS
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wheats and rices, the wheat could be
• An increase in a region’s agricultural harvested in time to plant rice. This wheat/
productivity implies a rice combination is now widely used
more efficientdistribution of scarce throughout the Punjab, Haryana, and parts
resources. As farmers adopt new techniques of Uttar Pradesh. The wheat yield of three
and differences, the more productive tons and rice yield of two tons combine for
farmers benefit from an increase in their five tons of grain per hectare, helping to
welfare while farmers who are not feed India’s 1.1 billion people.
productive enough will exit the market to
seek success elsewhere.
B. AGRICUTURE INPUT
• As a region’s farms become more
productive, its comparative advantage in The most essential inputs required for
agricultural products increases, which agriculture:-
means that it can produce these products at 1. Seed 2. Fertilizer 3. Farm Power 4.
a lower opportunity cost than can other Implements Machinery 5. Irrigation.
regions. Therefore, the region becomes
more competitive on the world market,
Seed:
which means that it can attract
more consumers since they are able to buy • Seed is technically defined as ripened ovule
more of the products offered for the same containing embryo. Another definition says
amount of money. that the seed is a living embryo which is vital
and basic input for attaining sustained
• Increases in agricultural productivity lead
growth in agricultural production in
also to agricultural growth and can help to
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different agro-climatic conditions. The requirements of the crop and therefore has
embryo in the seed remains almost to be made up through the application of
suspended for sometimes and then revives fertilizers.
to new development. • The crops and their varieties vary in the
• Seed is the symbol of beginning in scientific nutrient requirement and to reap the
agriculture, seed is the basic input and the benefits of the full potential a balanced
most important catalyst for other inputs to application of plant nutrient is a must. The
be cost effective. For ensuring sustainability three major elements are nitrogen,
the seed supports high productivity, phosphorus, and potash known as NPK.
enhancing profitability, creating bio- There is a certain proportion in which these
diversity at a reasonable level and gives elements are required by the plants.
environmental protection. Thus the seed • The fertilizers currently used are urea,
plays a vital and remarkable role in di-ammonium-phosphate, mutate of
agriculture. potash, ammonium sulphate, sodium
• The globalization of market and the recent nitrate etc. These fertilizers have different
meet of the General Agreement on Tariff composition in terms of the three
and Trade will call for competitiveness and elements. As per recommendation of
efficiency in the seed sector and its utility scientists a calculation is made depending
in terms of productivity, risk coverage, on the source of OM and fertilizer and it is
nutritional qualities and adaptability. calculated as to how much quantity of these
Fertilizer: OM and fertilizer be mixed for the basal or
later applications.
• In the traditional agriculture nutrient supply
to plants was from the organic sources • Since these fertilizers become an essential
except a few fertilizers like sodium nitrate, part of the modern farming these should
(NaNO3, or ammonium sulphate (NH4SO4) be available to the farmers in each season
was used which were used by progressive in the quantity required at the reasonable
fanners otherwise farm yard manure, cost and at the time needed.
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applied to soil. MORE THAN A COACHING.....
be possible when proper marketing of this
• These organic manures supplied a smaller important input is undertaken. It is,
percentage of major nutrients to plant as therefore, important to predict the demand
well as micro-nutrients but there were for fertilizers with reasonable accuracy at
other ancillary advantages : these organic the national and regional levels.
manures improved the soil fertility in an • The idea of demand is sound, but it is useful
indirect manner by improving the physical tool only when the systematic distribution
and biological properties of soil like the is well organised. The whole exercise will
water holding capacity of soil increased in be less useful if farms are not supplied with
direct proportion of the supply of OM the type of fertilizer they want, at the time
(organic matter), by the improvement in soil they need them, in quantities they require,
colour the heat absorbing capacity and at the reasonable price.
increased, the OM made the soil more pours
• Neglect of these aspects of distribution
by improving the soil structure resulting in
could lead to the serious imbalance of the
proper aeration. In addition the population
demand and supply at the farm level. The
of beneficial microorganism increased
performance of the system of distribution
which readily released the nutrient for the
is thus an extremely important
plant intake.
consideration in estimating demand for
• With the development of scientific fertilizers. It is regretful that it is a neglected
agriculture and introduction of modern area.
technology the importance of chemical
Farm Power:
fertilizer increased. Mere application of
organic matter does not fulfill the nutrient • The world is entering in the twenty-first
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century so that every sector of the economy processed products of agricultural origin.
should prepare itself to face the challenges Therefore, it is necessary to adjudge the
of the coming century. There will be need effective power position by the turn of the
to produce more than what is being century.
produced and there would be greater
demand for food, fiber and other
Agro-Industries in Supply and Service:
commodities.
• The land area is limited and moreover from
• In the modernization of agriculture the role
of agro-industries have to play a
the already scarce cultivated or cultivable
tremendous role.
area the land shall be coming under the
agricultural uses like housing, • The agro-industries supply inputs to
entertainment etc. With the technological agriculture to sustain modern techniques in
development more power will be needed agricultural production like fertilizers, plant
to fulfill the growing demand. protection chemicals, now a trend is
• Farm power and productivity are co-related towards the indigenous products like neem
because to produce more per unit land the products and bio-parasites and also the
use of machinery and equipment are processing of the agricultural produce, like
inevitable. oil extraction, hulling, preparation of fruit
products into processed goods like jelly,
jams, pickles etc.
The main sources of power in agriculture are:
1. Bullocks, Irrigation:
2. He-buffaloes (Specially in Tarai area),
• Irrigation is the artificial application of water
3. Camel (in desert area), to crops. In the rainy season if the spread of
4. Horses (in European countries), rainfall is evenly distributed and rains in the
5. Machines (used universally). right intensity the crops are raised as
rainfed crops, if the rainfall is erratic and
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adults was over 300 million. In many • Under-nutrition is not as visible as severe
developed countries more than 50% of the malnutrition, hence receiving less media
population is overweight. attention than famines or outright
6. Cardiovascular disease Although many CVD starvation; nevertheless, it is a much larger
can be treated or prevented, WHO and chronic problem. Severe malnutrition,
estimates that 17 million people die of CVD particularly in young children and infants,
each year, with one heart attack every 4 s can lead to death.
and one stroke every 5 s in 2001.41 In the Extent of the Problem
last decade or so there has been a • According to the United Nations report on
proliferation of low-fat, fat-reduced and fat- world food security and nutrition, with
free food products available to help climate change and increasing conflict,
consumers eat a more healthy diet and global hunger has increased since 2016,
reduce their risk of chronic conditions such affecting 815 million people [FAO]
as CVD. Following these, some of the most .However, there is an indication of overall
exciting developments in functional food progress, as this number is down from an
science, based on a growing body of estimated 900 million undernourished
evidence, are those foods that have the people in 2000 (FAO, 2017).
potential to influence risk factors for CVD
• For two decades, leading up to the
millennium, global demand for food
Consequences of malnutrition increased steadily, along with growth in the
• Malnutrition involves a deficient, excess or world’s population, record harvests,
imbalanced intake of nutrients for proper improvements in incomes, and the
tissue and organ function, and it diversification of diets. As a result, food
encompasses both over-nutrition and prices continued to decline through 2000.
under-nutrition But beginning in 2004, prices for most grains
began to rise. Although there was an
• Over-nutrition, a condition of excess
increase in production, the increase in
nutrient and energy intake over time, may
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demand was greater.
it leads to morbid obesity. • A COFood
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in 2005, food production was dramatically
• Under-nutrition is caused by inadequate affected by extreme weather incidents in
food supply or inability to use the nutrients major food-producing countries. By 2006,
in food, possibly resulting in micronutrient world cereal production had fallen by 2.1
deficiencies, stunting (low height for age), percent. In 2007, rapid increases in oil prices
wasting (low weight for height), or increased fertilizer and other food
underweight (low weight for age). production costs.
• The term ‘Chronic malnutrition’ refers to • As international food prices reached
lower intake of nutrients than the body unprecedented levels, countries sought
needs over a long period of time .This type ways to insulate themselves from potential
of under-nutrition can cause young children food shortages and price shocks. Several
to be: food-exporting countries imposed export
stunted in height, underweight, restrictions. Certain key importers began
delayed in developmental capacities purchasing grains at any price to maintain
such as brain function, and domestic supplies.
more prone to disease. • Under-nutrition can begin in the womb and
propagate across generations when a
Additionally, under-nutrition can cause:
mother who does not meet nutritional
swollen and bleeding gums, intake requirements during pregnancy
dizziness and fatigue, and gives birth to an already stunted . Under-
decaying teeth, among other symptoms nutrition within the first 1,000 days of a
child’s life, also known as the window of
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opportunity, can lead to irreversible stunted • Chronically malnourished children are more
growth and has been associated with likely to become short adults that birth
impaired cognitive ability and reduced smaller infants who have lower educational
performance in school and later in life at achievement and economic status in
work. Studies have found that children who adulthood. This cycle carries on from mother
are born stunted or become stunted very to child when chronic under-nutrition
early in life have greater potential for continues generation to generation.
severe stunting and its long-term Stunting and its effects typically become
consequences into adulthood permanent because reversal usually means
changing the basic and underlying causes
of malnutrition.
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The most vulnerable are: against targets
• children under five and pregnant and The year 2015 marked the end of the
lactating women, monitoring period for the two
internationally agreed targets for hunger
• poor people, reduction:
• people who live in developing countries, • The first was the World Food
and Summit (WFS) goal. At the WFS, held in
• people who are displaced or who live in Rome in 1996, representatives of 182
conflict zones governments pledged ”... to eradicate
The World Health Organization (WHO) hunger in all countries, with an immediate
estimates that 98 million children under five view to reducing the number of
years of age are underweight, or about one undernourished people to half their present
in every six children. The prevalence of level no later than 2015".
undernourished people is the highest in • The second was the formulation of the First
Africa, but the absolute number of Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1),
undernourished children is highest in Asia. which includes among its targets “cutting by
Prevalence is the proportion of a population half the proportion of people who suffer
affected by a disease or showing a certain from hunger by 2015”.
characteristic (expressed as a percentage), The Millennium Development Goals and food
and absolute number is simply the count of In 2000, world leaders gathered at the UN
people in the population with a disease or to shape a broad vision to fight poverty,
showing a certain characteristic.
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which was translated into eight Millennium • Zero stunted children under the age of two
Development Goals (MDGs) and remained, • 100% access to adequate food all year round
until 2015, the overarching
• All food systems are sustainable
development framework for the world. At
the end of the MDG period in 2015, there • 100% increase in smallholder productivity
was a final assessment of progress made and income
during the MDG period. • Zero loss or waste of food
The global mobilization behind the Food and the SDGs
Millennium Development Goals has Food is also at the core of the Sustainable
produced the most successful anti-poverty Development Goals (SDGs), the UN’s
movement in history. The MDG target of development agenda for the 21st century.
reducing by half the proportion of people The second of the UN’s 17 SDGs is to “End
living in extreme poverty was achieved in hunger, achieve food security and improved
2010, well ahead of the 2015 deadline. nutrition and promote sustainable
• The proportion of undernourished people agriculture”. Achieving this goal by the
in the developing regions has fallen by target date of 2030 will require a profound
almost half. change of the global food and agriculture
• One in in seven children worldwide are system. Some of the components of this
underweight, down from one in four in 1990. goal are:
As can be seen from the above results of • Ending hunger, and ensuring access by all
the MDGs, there was much progress in people to safe, nutritious food;
relation to food and hunger between 2000 • Ending all forms of malnutrition;
and 2015. However, a lot more work needs • Doubling the agricultural productivity and
to be done. That work will now be the focus incomes of small-scale food producers;
of the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Ensuring sustainable food production
Zero Hunger challenge systems;
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launched the Zero Hunger Challenge in 2012
IASinvestment in agriculture;
Increasing
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during the Rio+20 World Conference on • Correcting
Sustainable Development. The Zero Hunger and distortions in world agricultural
Challenge was launched to inspire a global markets;
movement towards a world free from • Adopting measures to ensure the proper
hunger within a generation. It calls for: functioning of food commodity markets.
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7. Melting water reserves:- At no time since percent and still produce the same yields.
agriculture began has the world faced such Further efficiency could be gained through
a predictably massive threat to food adjustments in the timing, placement and
production as that posed by the melting type of fertilizer.
mountain glaciers of Asia. 3. Raise low water productivity
Mountain glaciers are melting in the Andes, Water is a major issue. Improving irrigation
the Rocky Mountains, the Alps and systems and planting crops that use less
elsewhere. But nowhere does melting water would be an effective way to tackle
threaten world food security more than this. For example, rice and sugar cane are
in the glaciers of the Himalayas and on the among the crops that need the most water.
Tibetan Plateau that feed the major rivers One way to encourage change would be to
of India and China. provide economic incentives, but that can
Ice melt helps sustain these rivers during change based on regional differences and
the dry season. In the Indus, Ganges, Yellow cultural tastes.
and Yangtze river basins, where irrigated 4. Target food for direct consumption
agriculture depends heavily on rivers, the
A lot of caloric efficiency is lost when crops
loss of glacial-fed, dry-season flow will
are converted for animal feed and other
shrink harvests and could create potentially
non-food uses. If these crops were used
unmanageable food shortages.
directly to feed people they could provide
8. Flattening yields:- After several decades of enough calories for 4 billion people.
raising grain yields, farmers in the more
5. Reduce food waste
agriculturally advanced countries have
recently hit a glass ceiling. That production Globally, 30-50 percent of food production
ceiling is imposed by the limits of goes to waste because of inefficient
photosynthesis itself. preparation or inadequate storage facilities.
The United States is one of the biggest
In China, rice yields are now just 4% below
culprits for this and needs an agricultural
Japan’s. Unless China can raise its yields
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above those in Japan, which seems unlikely, IAS
land base that is 7 to 8 times larger than a
land base in India to compensate for this
it, too, is facing a plateauing of rice yields.
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waste. Reducing food waste in the United
Yields of wheat, the world’s other food States, India and China could feed 413
staple, are also plateauing in the more million people per year.
agriculturally advanced countries. For
example, France, Germany and the United
K ingdom — Europe’s leading wheat Famine: causes, effects and remedies
producers — had been raising wheat yields • The literal meaning of famine is “extreme
for several decades. Roughly a decade ago, inadequacy and the scarcity of food.” Famine
all three hit plateaus. is the phenomenon which occurs in a vast
terrestrial area due to various
environmental and biological reasons. Some
Food Security Strategies
of the prime reasons are population
1. Close the yield gap imbalance, scarcity of water or lack of
Closing the gap between what is being rainfall, population imbalance, crop failure,
produced and what could be produced government policies.
would both reduce the need to clear land • This phenomenon is usually accompanied
for agriculture and feed 850 million people. or followed by regional malnutrition,
The next points address how this gap can starvation, epidemic, and increased
be diminished. mortality.
2. Use fertilizer more efficiently • Every inhabited continent in the world has
It is estimated that the use of fertilizers with experienced a period of famine throughout
nitrogen and phosphorus on wheat, rice and history. In the 19th and 20th century, it was
maize crops could be reduced by 13-29 generally Southeast and South Asia, as well
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Pradesh), the copper smelting plant at • It is becoming more and more true that
Khetri (Rajasthan) and the fertilizer factory industries are seeking locations as near as
at Nangal (Punjab) are near the sources of possible to their markets; it has been
power and raw material deposits, although remarked that market attractions are now
other factors have also played their role. so great that a market location is being
3. Labour: increasingly regarded as the normal one,
and that a location elsewhere needs very
• No one can deny that the prior existence of
strong justification.
a labour force is attractive to industry unless
there are strong reasons to the contrary. • Ready market is most essential for
Labour supply is important in two respects perishable and heavy commodities.
(a) workers in large numbers are often Sometimes, there is a considerable material
required; (b) people with skill or technical increase in weight, bulk or fragility during
expertise are needed. Estall and Buchanan the process of manufacture and in such
showed in 1961 that labour costs can vary cases industry tends to be market oriented.
between 62 per cent in clothing and related 6. Water:
industries to 29 per cent in the chemical • Water is another important require-ment
industry; in the fabricated metal products for industries. Many industries are
industries they work out at 43 per cent. established near rivers, canals and lakes,
• In our country, modem industry still requires because of this reason. Iron and steel
a large number of workers in spite of industry, textile industries and chemical
increasing mechanisation. There is no industries require large quantities of water,
problem in securing unskilled labour by for their proper functioning.
locating such industries in large urban • Significance of water in industry is evident
centres. Although, the location of any from Table 27.3. Also it requires 36,400 litres
industrial unit is determined after a careful of water to produce one kwh of thermal
balancing of all relevant factors, yet the electricity. Further, it is worth noting that
light consumer goods and agro-based water used in industries gets polluted and
industries generally require aGUIDANCE
plentiful of IAS not available for any other
is therefore
labour supply. purpose.
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4. Transport: Requirement of Water in Industry:
• Transport by land or water is necessary for Name of Amount of water
the assembly of raw materials and for the
the industry required in litres/tonne
marketing of the finished products. The
development of railways in India, Steel 300,000
connecting the port towns with hinterland Oil refining 25,600
determined the location of many industries Rayon 1,000,000
around Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai. As
industrial development also furthers the Paper from wood 173,000
improvement of transport facilities, it is
difficult to estimate how much a particular 7. Site:
industry owes to original transport facilities
• Site requirements for industrial
available in a particular area.
development are of considerable
5. Market: significance. Sites, generally, should be flat
• The entire process of manufacturing is and well served by adequate transport
useless until the finished goods reach the facilities. Large areas are required to build
market. Nearness to market is essential for factories. Now, there is a tendency to set
quick disposal of manufactured goods. It up industries in rural areas because the cost
helps in reducing the transport cost and of land has shot up in urban centres.
enables the consumer to get things at 8. Climate:
cheaper rates.
• Climate plays an important role in the
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establishment of industries at a place. Harsh pollution of air and water and for avoiding
climate is not much suitable for the their heavy clustering in big cities, has
establishment of industries. There can be become no less an important locational
no industrial development in extremely factor.
hot, humid, dry or cold climate. • There is an increasing trend to set up all
• The extreme type of climate of north-west types of industries in an area, where they
India hinders the development of derive common advantage of water and
industries. In contrast to this, the moderate power and supply to each other the
climate of west coastal area is quite products they turn out. The latest example
congenial to the development of in our country is the establishment of a large
industries. Because of this reason, about 24 number of industrial estates all over India
per cent of India’s modem industries and 30 even in the small-scale industrial sector.
per cent of India’s industrial labour is • It is of relevance to examine the influence
concentrated in Maharashtra-Gujarat region of India’s Five Year plans on industrial
alone. location in the country. The emergence of
• Cotton textile industry requires humid suitable industries in south India around
climate because thread breaks in dry new nuclei of public sector plants and their
climate. Consequently, majority of cotton dispersal to backward potential areas has
textile mills are concentrated in taken place due to Government policies.
Maharashtra and Gujarat. Artificial • The state policy of industrial location has a
humidifiers are used in dry areas these days, greater hand in the establishment of a
but it increases the cost of production. number of fertiliser factories, iron and steel
plants, engineering works and machine tool
II. Non-Geographical Factors: factories including railway, shipping, aircraft
and defence installations and oil refineries
• Now-a-days alternative raw materials are
in various parts in the new planning era in
also being used because of modern
free India.
scientific and technological developments.
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supply over • We IASmay conclude by noting that the
wider areas and the increasing mobility of traditional
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• Bad management does not handle the nickel it has increased toughness and
labour force efficiently and tactfully, ductility, and becomes highly resistant to
resulting in labour unrest. It is detrimental corrosion, so it is used for armour planting.
to the interest of the industry. Strikes and The addition of 12 per cent manganese to
lock-outs lead to the closure of industries. steel imparts great toughness and
Hence, there is an imperative need of resistance to abrasion. Similarly addition of
effective management and organisation to cobalt, molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium,
run the industries. etc., produce special type of steel useful for
5. Banking Facilities: various purposes.
• Establishment of industries involves daily Localisation of Iron and Steel Industry
exchange of crores of rupees which is • The establishment, development and
possible through banking facilities only. So concentration of iron and steel industry
the areas with better banking facilities are requires many things. It must collect raw
better suited to the establishment of material and power resources to produce
industries. things. It requires finances, machinery and
6. Insurance: labour to keep it running. It requires a
market to sell its produce and above all it
• There is a constant fear of damage to
requires transport facilities. At the early
machine and man in industries for which
period of growth, location of iron and steel
insurance facilities are badly needed.
industry was entirely governed by the ratio
of raw material assembling cost and
Key Global Industries at glance: distribution cost of finished product to the
1. IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY consumer. While considering localisation of
iron and steel industry, two sets of factors
• The iron and steel industry is the are important. The primary factor is, of
fundamental or basic manufacturing course, avail-ability of raw material, market,
industry. The sturdy structure of modern energy supply and labour. While second
industrial world is made of steel. Most of category of factors are the factors of
the subsidiary industries, GUIDANCE
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taxes, duties, rent, etc., and (ii) production
machine-tools, engineering, etc., are cost, e.g., labour, wage, transport charges,
directly linked with iron and steel industry. sales tax, income tax, etc.
The quality and quantity of the iron and
steel industry of a country, greatly • Basically, iron and steel industry is a
influ-ences the nature and type of the resource-based industry; therefore, its
industrial development. location is determined by raw materials as
well as by availability of power resources.
• Iron and steel industry truly forms the basis The capital, market and transport are the
not only of the industrial structure but of other factors influencing the localisation of
the very way of life in the modern world. iron and steel industry.
The economic growth of both developed
and developing country is largely • Raw material and power resources are key
dependent on its steel-making capacity. components of the establishment,
The usefulness of iron and steel as a metal development and concentration of iron and
is because of it’s certain qualities such as: steel industry. Many of the world’s famous
(i) great strength and toughness, (ii) great steel centres of today have had their
elasticity, (iii) relatively high ductility, (iv) inception during the 19th and early 20th
low cost and ease of production, (v) centuries at the places where iron ore and/
alloyability, etc. Iron can be alloyed with or coal was available. Although, technology
many other metals to produce special steels of production of steel now has changed but
for diverse and specific needs. Small the factor of raw material still plays a vital
amounts of chromium in steel improves role.
hardening qualities. When alloyed with • Both coal and iron ore are localised raw
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materials. In earlier days, roughly two tons produced are free from blow holes. It
of coal was necessary for smelting one ton combines with sulphur and thereby
of iron ore yielding, say 50 per cent metal. prevents formation of iron sulphide. Iron
Thus, two tons of coal and one ton of iron sulphide’s presence in steel causes
ore produced half a ton of finished steel. weakness and brittleness of the metal in
• As suggested by ‘least-cost location’ school the hot stage and this is popularly known as
headed by Weber, all the raw materials and “reds hotness”. The manganese
energy resources used to manufacture iron requirement for steel making is about 20
and steel are localised and impure or per cent. This, even if it is not available
weight-losing material. So, the Weberian locally, the same can be obtained from other
concept reveals that coal area is the most areas. The limestone and dolomite are used
suitable location, as far as transport costs for purification purposes. In most of the iron
are concerned. Initially, iron and steel plants and steel-producing centres, there is no
had a clear tendency towards coal areas. dearth of supply of limestone and
But, with the passage of time, new dolomite.
technologies were introduced which were, • Capital and market are also important
on the one hand, fuel saving, and on the factors in localisation of industries,
other hand, the requirement of iron ore including iron and steel industry. In
volume also came down. The LD converters establishment of iron and steel industry
and Oxygen processes need very little fuel. huge capital is required. The requirement
In fact, the continuous casting and of capital is fulfilled either by big corporates
introduction of electric furnaces do not or by government and other financial
require coal as fuel, rather it uses electric agencies. Similarly, the manufacturer must
energy, may be hydel or nuclear. The have access to markets. This market may be
continuous casting method is the direct of regional, national or international level.
conversion of steel from iron ore. It reduces Market based location is generally found in
fuel cost drastically. In this way coal area the countries where coal and iron ore
has lost much of its pre-eminence in the deposits are rare. As Japan is deficient in
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industry. bothIAS
iron ore and coal and almost all raw
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materials
• Both iron ore-based and coal-based sites are
common for iron and steel industry. Iron ore countries, Japanese steel plants are mostly
based location is not a very rare market based.
phenomenon. They occur in Lorraine in • Transportation is another controlling factor
France, Duluth in USA, Bhadravati, of the location of iron and steel industry.
Vishakhapatnam in India, Corby in UK. The intermediate location, in some cases,
• Coal-based plant, in fact, at one time was gets distinct advantages in terms of the
the most sought after locations. Due to high accessibility with raw materials, market and
amount of weight loss during processing, transportation. The raw material based
early steel plants were mostly coal-based. industries are now facing disadvantages
The classical examples of coal-based because of depleting reserves of raw
locations are: Ruhr valley in Germany, New material. So, considering long-term survival
Castle in UK , Pittsburgh region in USA, of the industry, it is desirable for the
Bokaro, Durgapur and Jamshedpur in India. industries to select a location which can
provide sustained growth to the industry.
• The other raw materials required for iron
Apart from this, the drastic reduction of coal
and steel industry are manganese,
use and development of fuel economy also
limestone and dolomite, etc. Metallurgical
attracted industries to the areas where
manganese in the form of alloys with iron
transport is cheaper; for example, cheap
and silicon is used in the manufacture of
water route or break of bulk location, where
steel. It has a twin action: it acts as a
due to loading and unloading facilities, raw
deoxidiser and also as desulphuriser. In the
materials are available at a much cheaper
presence of oxygen it produces steel almost
rate.
free from iron oxides and the ingots thus
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1. The Tokyo-Yokohama Region: It is having all undergone through several changes. This
facilities required for the growth of iron- change has not only occurred in growth and
steel industry. The reclamation of Tokyo Bay production pattern but also in localisation
provided large, extensive plane land for pattern. The major iron and steel regions in
steel manufacturing units. The Tokyo-China the USA are as follows:
region is the main area in which steel (i) Appalachian or Pittsburgh Region: The most
industrial units have been developed at important of all the and contains about 42.5
Hitachi and North Tokyo. per cent of the blast furnace capacity of the
2. Nagoya Region: It contributes about 20 per country and its centre, Pittsburgh, is the
cent of the Japanese steel production. This second greatest centre of steel industry in
region had witnessed a massive growth of the world. The mills in this region are
industries within the period 1950-60. located almost exclusively in the narrow
3. Osaka-Kobe Region: At the head of the valleys of the headwater streams of the Ohio
Osaka Bay, a highly industrialised area know river, including the upper reaches of the
as the Kinki has developed. The port of Ohio itself.
Osaka is the main centre. Other centres of • The region, often known as the Pittsburg-
this region are Amagaski, Kobe, Hemegi, Youngstown region, includes several
Sakai and Wakayama. districts. The Pittsburgh district consists of
4. Fukuoka-Yamaguchi Region: It is located in industries located in the valleys of the Ohio,
the extreme south of Japan within Kyushu Monongahela, and Allegheny, within 60 km
and westernmost end of Honshu. The first of Pitts-burgh. The chief disadvantage of the
government steel plant was established at region is its remoteness from the sources
Yawata in 1901. Kita-Kyushu is another of iron ore supplies, which come from the
notable iron and steel centre of this region. Lake Superior region partly by rail and partly
by water.
5. Oka-Yamaha Region: It is a new industrial
region situated in between Osaka-Kobe and (ii) Lake Region: The lake region falls into:
Hiroshima. (a) the Lake Erie ports; Detroit, Cleveland and
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Hokkaido Region: The main centre of this IAS
Buffalo, etc.;the centres near the head of
MOiron
region is Murroran. A fairly big sized Lake
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and steel industry has developed here district; and
depending upon local coal and iron ore. (b) the Lake Superior region, Duluth. These
• The most striking feature in the locational districts represent a somewhat different
pattern of Japan’s steel plants is that they adjustment to the three factors in the
are situated either on the Bay-Coast or on localisation of the industry, coal, iron and
some canal or river. This is because of the market. The Lake Erie ports are nearer to
fact that most of the Japanese steel plants the Appalachian coal, but farther from the
depend upon outside raw material. Another iron ore than the Duluth region. The
feature is that they are located in the heart Michigan region is midway between the
of great industrial districts which provide two. One important advantage that all these
ready market for finished steel. In fact, districts enjoy over the Pittsburg region is
localisation of iron and steel industry in that, owing to their location on the lake
Japan is market-oriented. shores, one extra handling of iron ore is
eliminated. On the other hand, these
centres are located a little away from the
United States of America market. Duluth, for example, has in its
• Once USA was the highest producer of iron immediate hinterland the forest, farm, and
and steel but now its rank is third in the the ranching country, with little demand for
world, next to China and Japan. In the US iron and steel goods.
first iron and steel plant was estab-lished • Detroit is the largest steel consuming centre
in 1629 at Massachusetts. During last 380 in the U SA particularly because of its
years or so the US steel industry has automobile industry.
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(iii) Atlantic Seaboard Region: On the Atlantic world. Russia ranks 4th in the production of
Seaboard, it is only the Middle Atlantic pig iron and crude steel, while Ukraine
region (New York, Philadelphia and stands 8th in world ranking.
Baltimore, etc.) that is important. The chief • In the post-revolution period, the Soviet
advantage that this region enjoys is in steel industry had achieved a remarkable
respect of its location, both in relation to expansion. During the Second Word War,
the tidewater, and the proximity to the large however, the Soviet iron and steel industry
industrial centres of the East. Its location was affected badly. Most of the large
near the centre of the great manufacturing production centres were either destroyed
region of the Atlantic Seaboard, the region or damaged. However, soon the country
of the densest population, and of the most recovered and by 1975 became the largest
intense industrial development in North producer of iron and steel in the world. The
America, is the most remarkable. four important iron- and steel-producing
• The Middle Atlantic region is the only major regions are:
region in which the production of pig iron (i) Ural Region: It lies on both sides of the Urals.
and steel is notably greater, in proportion, The major steel centres of this region are -
than the iron ore consumed, because of the Magnitogorsk, Chelyabink, Nizhnitagil,
relatively larger amounts of scrap available Sverdlovsk, Serov, Perm, Orsk, etc.
in this highly industrialised region. There Magnitogorsk is the largest steel-producing
are many steel mills in this region which centre of Russia.
operate without blast furnaces, depending
(ii) Kuznetsk or Kuzbas Region: It is located in
both on scrap and pig iron imported from
the north of the Alai mountains and south
other areas, particularly the Northern
of Tomsk. This steel region is coal-based.
Appalachian region.
The supply of iron ore is from the Ural region.
(iv) South Appalachian: In the Southern Novokuznetsk is the leading steel centre of
Appalachians, in Alabama, however, large this region.
deposits of these raw materials are found
(iii) Moscow Region: Important centres of iron
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ore is of low grade and requires shaft
mining, much of the rock is lime and the ore (iv) Others: Other regions are isolated and
is, therefore, self-fluxing. The region lacks, developed in various parts. These are Baikal,
however, large industrial centres in the St. Petersburg, Lower Amer valley and
neighbourhood and has, therefore, a Pacific coastal region.
considerable amount of surplus pig iron
which goes to the North. Ukraine
(v) Western Region: This region extends from • Now, Ukraine is an independent country and
Colorado in the interior to the California on has 8th position in world’s production of
the west. Among the steel region in the iron and steel. In this region all the raw
USA, this is a new region. The first steel mill, materials, i.e., iron ore, coal, limestone,
although had been setup in 1882 at Pueblo. manganese are available for steel
Later on steel industries were developed production. A dense network of railways
at Fontana in California and Provo at Utah. and cheap water transport facilitate the
For these plants, iron ore is obtained from growth and development of iron and steel
Wyoming and coal from Colorado. industry. The main centres of iron and steel
plants are Krivoirog, Kerch, Zhdanow,
Russia-Ukraine (erstwhile USSR) Tagarerog, Zaporozhye, Pittsburgh,
Dniepropetrovsk, etc.
• Prior to disintegration in 1991, USSR was the
leading steel-producing country of the
world. Now also Russia and Ukraine are Germany
important iron and steel producers of the • Before World War I, Germany was the
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second largest iron and steel producer in plant - the Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd.
the world. It was the largest exporter of (TISCO) was set up in Jamshedpur in Bihar
steel goods in the world. German iron and in private collaboration with a US firm.
steel industry was handicapped since after • At the commencement of Five-Year Plans
the war of 1914 by the loss of ore, coal and (1951) there were three steel plants located
productive capacity. Germany, however, at Jamshedpur, Asansol and Bhadravati. Not
made a remarkable recovery within a few only capacity of these plants was increased
years, and in spite of her depleted resources but six integrated plants in public sector
she produced in 1939 more than the 1913 have been established at Durgapur,
production of steel. In 1937 she had Rourkela, Bhilai, Bokaro, Vishakhapatnam
established the great Hermann Goering and Salem. Apart from these more than 140
Steel Works at Salzgitter to utilise the grade mini steel plants have also been set up to
ores in its Harz Mts. meet the growing internal demand. India is
• The division of Germany was the main having the largest iron ore deposits in the
cause of lower status in terms of iron and world and also having coal, therefore,
steel production. But after re-unification of having very good prospects of the further
East and West Germany in 1990, the country growth of iron and steel industry.
is now one of the leading steel-producing
countries in the world and ranks 5th in the
France
world with an annual production of 27.3
crore tons of pig iron and 41.7 crore tons of • Till 1973, France was the 6th largest producer
crude steel. of steel in the world but now its position is
10th. France is the biggest iron ore-
• The most important centre of iron and steel
producing country of West Europe but there
industry in Germany is the Rhenish-
is scarcity of coal. In France, two regions are
Westphalia, contributing more than 80 per
notable for iron and steel production. These
cent of the steel produced in Germany, and
are: (i) Lorraine, and (ii) Sambre-Meuse
85 per cent of pig iron. The greatest centre
is Essen in the Ruhr valley where the world
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• Great Britain was not only the pioneer but a
Brazil leading steel-producing country in the
world for a long time. But its decline started
• Brazil is the 7th ranking country in iron and
in the first quarter of the 20th century. Now
steel production in the world. Its annual
once again Great Britain has been able to
production is 27.7 crore tons of pig iron and
establish itself as one of the important iron-
27.8 crore tons of steel.
and steel-producing countries and ranks
• The development of the production of steel 12th in the world. The main advantage of
in Brazil has been spectacular. Since 1973, UK’s iron and steel industry is that most of
production of steel has witnessed more the centres are well-situated in relation to
than 300 per cent increase. The consumption their coal and ore supplies and also have
of steel within the country is very low. good facilities of importing raw material and
Therefore, Brazil is able to export bulk of exporting finished goods.
her steel production. Most of the steel
The most important steel-producing centres of
industries are located around Sao-Paulo and
UK are as follows:
Curumba. Brazil possesses vast amount of
iron ore. The largest of these deposit is 1. North East Coast (Middlesborough, near
located near Minas-Gerraes. Another large New Castle, is the largest producing centre,
steel plant is located at Santa Catarina. Most and has the most modern equipment in
of the mills obtain energy from hydel- Britain’s industry).
power plants. 2. Derby, Leicester, etc.
India 3. South Wales (Cardiff).
• It was in 1911 that India’s first iron and steel 4. Lincolnshire.
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washing operations of the industry. The For example, New England textile centres
influence of this factor can be seen in the in USA shifted towards Piedmont because
location of cotton mills in Lancashire along of the prevailing wage rate.
streams or canals. Transport
Power • Easy means of transportation are needed
• Like any other industry cotton textile for all industries, and particularly for cotton,
industry also requires constant and cheap the product of which is cheap and for which
sources of power. Most of the industries are the market is sometimes situated
located near sources of power. Earlier cotton thousands of miles away. It is an interesting
textile industry was based on power fact that all the leading cotton mill centres -
obtained from coal, this can be seen in UK unlike iron and steel industry - cater to
where all the cotton textile industry were distant markets. Lancashire manufactures
established near coal mines. But afterwards primarily for India; and the East Japan
hydropower has also been used and now manufactures for India, China and other
all sources of power are being utilised in Asiatic markets; and the United States
this industry. manufactures mainly for the West Indies
Raw Material and the South American markets. Even in
India, the mills of Mumbai and Ahmedabad
• A historical analysis of the locational pattern
produce primarily for inland markets. The
reveals that, at its earlier period of growth,
effect of cheap transport can be easily seen
textile mills were developed near raw
in the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal.
material sources, because at that time
Easy means of communication, in importing
transportation system was ill developed.
machinery and coal by sea, getting raw
Away from the cotton-growing region,
cotton by rail, and disposing of the finished
availability of raw cotton was also very low.
product to inland and foreign markets, have
Naturally, due to higher demand, price of
also been the dominating factors in
raw cotton was high at the distant places.
localising the cotton industry in Maharashtra
But in its second phase of development,
and Gujarat.
rapid progress of transportation GUIDANCE
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facilitated easy accessi-bility within Markets
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region. At that time, price of raw cotton • Markets are a very potent factor in the
became same, both near the raw material location of the cotton industry. It has been
source and ths market. Naturally, market one of the important factors in the growth
became the favourite site for plant location. of the British cotton industry. Britain’s
The importance of raw material gradually political influence over its colonies,
lost its previous importance. particularly India, and the economic
Labour influence through investments, obtained
for its large markets, the increasing demand
• Basically, cotton textile industry was a
from which naturally gave the British cotton
labour-intensive industry. The early history
industry an impetus which was denied to
of localisation in any country shows that
others. The weakening of this influence in
development of cotton textile industry was
later years has been the cause of the
a pre-requisite. The need of clothing and
declining position of the British cotton
requirement of low level of technology
industry. The cotton textile industry that
enabled the entrepreneurs to set up the
developed in Japan and China as well as in
industry. Minimum level of training was
other countries have both inland and world-
enough for the labourers to be acquainted
wide markets.
with the production system. At that time,
wage rate of the labours was also very low. • The general trend of the location of textile
The wage rate of the labour was an industry reveals that three types of
important consideration for the location. A locations are preferred. These are:
slight hike of the wage rate made a lot of (i) the textile industry is located within the
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(ii) the industry is located within raw material omnipresent market of cotton textile
sources; and industries throughout the world is, perhaps,
(iii) the textile centres have been developed responsible for the dispersed or diffused
between the above mentioned two regions. nature of cotton textile industry.
• The recent trends in the localisation indicate Production and World Distribution
that in some cases, speciali-sation in a • Cotton textile industry is quite widespread
particular product and the general quality in the world and as many as 90 countries are
of the product helped a lot to sustain producing cotton yarn and/or cloth in
development. In these cases textile varying quantity. But the main concentration
industry thrives for export market. The of textile industry is limited to few
development of Lancashire region in countries. There are two types of production
England and Tokyo-Yokohama in Japan related with cotton textile, one is the
depended heavily on foreign markets. production of cotton yarn and another is the
Similarly, most of the textile-producing production of cotton cloth. Although many
countries, are now concentrating on the countries produce both the items. The
production of quality goods rather than following table indicates the important
coarse fiber production. The import of producers of cotton yarn and their
primary products from producing countries production:
for the production of quality goods now has • Apart from the above countries Germany,
become a common feature. The automation Portugal, Greece, Uzbekistan, Syria, France,
and high wage rate of the labour forced the Bangladesh, Turkmenistan and Iran are also
countries to adopt a capital-intensive notable producers of cotton yarn.
manufacturing activity, rather than the
• The leading producers of cotton cloth in the
former labour-intensive activity. In brief,
world are China, India, Russia, USA, Japan,
the locational factors of cotton textile
Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Egypt, France
industry are so complex that it is very
and Romania.
difficult to ascertain the reasons liable for
concentration of industries in a particular Important producers of cotton cloth in the world
region. The original factors areGUIDANCE
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existing but the new factors are also ever widespread in the world, however, there
changing. The factors responsible for are areas of concentration. A brief
location of cotton textile industry in USA description of the important areas of cotton
may not be applicable to India. The textile industry is given here to explain the
general pattern of distribution.
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• An improvement in the quality of the home- mills are scattered, though a large number
grown cotton will help the situation. It is of spindles are concentrated within thirty
significant to note that even within these miles of Providence in southern New
particular areas or regions, the industry is England. This region has developed earlier
predominantly localised within a few because of availability of hydro-power and
important industrial centres like Mumbai, suitable climate. In this region temperature
Ahmedabad, Sholapur, Vadodara, Pune, is less variable and atmosphere more
Kanpur, Delhi, Indore, Gwalior, Coimbatore, humid than in the neighbouring regions.
Kalol, Bhagalpur, Warangaf Calcutta, • The manufactures are characterised by fine
Howrah, Serampur, Konnagar, Sodepur, goods, and finishing is a feature of the New
Panihati, etc. England industry. A large quantity of cloth
Russia comes for finishing, dyeing, printing, etc.,
• Russia ranks third in cotton cloth production from the South and other cotton-
in the world and it produces about ten per manufacturing regions of the USA.
cent of the total cotton cloth of the world. (ii) Mid-Atlantic: The Middle Atlantic States
Before Revolution (1917) the cotton textile cotton factories are located in Pennsylvania,
industry was localised in Moscow and New York and Maryland. But Philadelphia is
Ivanovo region but now it has developed in the only point at which there is
other regions also. The important regions concentration. The existence of these mills
are: in Philadelphia, and the character of their
(i) Moscow-Ivanovo Region is the oldest and output is chiefly due to labour supply,
the most important textile region. Ivanovo supple-mented by machine shops and
is having a large number of cotton spinning market facilities. The Mid-Atlantic States are
and weaving centres, also known as pre-eminent in the production of knitted
‘Manchester of Russia’. goods. In both, New York and Pennsylvania,
there is localisation of the knitting industry,
(ii) Leningrad or St. Petersburg Region is also
around Cohoes in the Mohawk valley and at
known for cotton textile industry. St.
Philadelphia. Philadelphia has been the
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Petersburg, Narva and Tallin are important IAS
principal seat of the hosiery industry in the
centres of this region. MORE THAN A COACHING.....
United States ever since the Germans
(iii) Kalinin Region extends west of Moscow. settled in German Town.
Kalinin, Vishniye, Volochak are important
(iii) Southern States: The growth of cotton
textile centres.
industry in the southern states has increased
(iv) Siberia Region has been developed on within recent years. The most extensive
availability of cheap hydro-electricity, construction of mills in the South has been
transport facility and labour. in three states - North Carolina, South
(v) Volga basin and Ural region also have cotton Carolina, and Georgia.
textile units. The development of textile • The Southern States have advantages such
industry in Russia is due to huge domestic as proximity of raw cotton, water-power
market, hydro-electricity, developed and cheap labour. The other advantage of
transport system and skilled labour. the South in comparison with the New
USA England states is its lower operating cost.
• USA is the leading cotton textile producer Japan
in the world. It ranks third in cotton yarn • After China and India, Japan is the third
production and fourth in cotton cloth leading Asian country in cotton textile
production in the world. The two factors production. The first cotton mill in Japan
responsible for its growth and development was established in 1862 at Kagoshima, but
are: (a) capital, and (b) the local market. In it was about 15 years later that cotton mills
USA cotton textile industry is localised in began to be started in quick succession,
the following regions: especially in and around the city of Osaka.
(i) New England: Within New England, the • The main geographical factors helping in the
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• The origin of chemical industry in Japan • India is now an important manufacturer of
began only after the First World War. But the chemical products. India produces 6 per
since then, rapid growth of this industry has cent sulphuric acid, 6.2 per cent soda ash
placed it in a high position. Although, during and 4 per cent caustic soda of the world
the Second World War, Japanese industries along with a large variety of other chemical
including the chemical industry were products. The major centres of chemical
completely devastated. But, with herculean industry in India are Mumbai, Kolkata,
efforts, Japan was able to rebuild its Sindri, Jamshedpur, Chennai, Bangalore,
chemical industry within a short period and Trombay, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Kanpur,
surpassed its pre-war production level. Amritsar, Delhi, etc.
• Most of the Japanese chemical plants are Brazil
either newly constructed or completely • Brazil is a significant producer of chemical
rebuilt, so output and productivity is very products not only in South America but also
high. All the plants are new, modernised in the world. It produces 5 per cent sulphuric
and automated. acid, 3 per cent nitric acid and 4 per cent
• Japan is deficient in raw materials. More caustic soda to the world’s output. The main
than 80 per cent of its factories are entirely centres of chemical industry are Rio de
dependent on imported raw materials. The Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Minasgeras, Santos, etc.
only raw material abundant in Japan is • Apart from the above, Spain, Belgium,
sulphur, deposited extensively by volcanic Poland, Australia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Ukraine,
eruptions. Most of the chemical plants in Greece, Croatia, etc., are the other
Japan are located within the industrial important countries, producing chemical
agglomerations of Osaka-Kobe, Tokyo- products in the world.
Yokohoma, Nagoya, Hemagi and Kyushu.
United Kingdom
4. CHEMICAL FERTILISER INDUSTRY
• In UK chemical industry has been developed
in the following areas: GUIDANCE • TheIASgrowth, development and productivity
of agriculture
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(i) The Tees valley, and the fertility of soil depends upon
(ii) The Mursey valley and southern Lancashire, several factors, especially on its mineral
(iii) Tyne valley and Avon valley, components such as phosphorus,
potassium, nitrogen, calcium, magnesium,
(iv) Scotland, and
sulphur, etc. The critical problem of modern
(v) London region. agriculture is the maintenance of soil
• The leading chemical-producing centres are fertility. Each crop removes something from
Lancashire, Glasgow, Manchester, the soil. Our ancestors coped with this
Birmingham, Yorkshire, Leeds, Norwich, problem by following a ‘gap season’ with
Middlewich, etc. no crop on the land, so that it could recover
France naturally something of what it had lost. But
now under the pressure of population, land
• In France, chemical industry has developed hardly gets this rest, therefore, loss of soil
in four areas, i.e., north-eastern region, fertility and lower productivity has now
Lorraine region, Leyons-Marseilles region become a common problem.
and Bordeaux-Garonne region. The strong
industrial infrastructure, abundant coal • The production of chemical fertilisers,
reserve, developed petroleum refinery although a part of chemical industry, but
industry and presence of several raw because of their volume of production and
materials like salt, dolomite, limestone and nature, the chemical fertiliser industry now
potash facilitated the growth of chemical has become an independent and important
industry in France. industry.
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The common chemical fertilisers are: Nauru island in the Pacific Ocean.
(i) Nitrogenous fertilisers in the form of • USA, China, India, Russia, Belgium, Brazil,
ammonium sulphate, urea, nitro-limestone Tunisia, Poland, South Africa, Morocco, etc.,
and ammonium nitrate. are the major producers of phosphate
(ii) Phosphatic fertilisers in the form of super- fertilisers in the world.
phosphate like nitro-phosphate and Potash Fertilisers
ammonium phosphate, and • A large quantity of potassium is derived
(iii) Potassium fertilisers in the form of from deposits of potash salts. The largest
potassium. deposits of potash are found in Germany,
Nitrogen Fertilisers Belarus, Russia, France, Spain, USA and
Israel-Trans Jordan. Playa deposits in desert
• The primary deficiency of nitrogen in all
areas and the brines of some salt lakes are
temperate and tropical countries demands
also rich in potassium. Acid areas usually
top priority for the manufacture of nitrogen
need potassium fertilisers more than
fertilisers. Following are the important
neutral and alkaline soils because acid soils
nitrogen fertilisers in common use in various
have developed in areas of high rainfall that
countries of the world:
leaches fertilisers out of available
(i) Ammonium sulphate: 20.6 per cent N potassium. Japan uses potassium fertilisers
(ii) Ammonium sulphate nitrate: 26 per cent N on a large scale for rice production.
(iii) Calcium ammonium nitrate: 20.5 per cent N • Major producers of potash ferti-lisers are
(iv) Urea: 45 per cent N Belarus, Canada, Russia, China and Germany.
Apart from the countries mentioned in the
(v) Ammonium chloride: 25 per cent N table, Brazil, Poland, Republic of Korea also
• Nitrogen fertilisers are the most widely produce potash fertilisers.
produced and most commonly used. Chemical Fertiliser Industry in India
• China is the largest producer of nitrogen • One of the important factors in the success
fertiliser and contributes 24 per cent of the
world’s production. India is GUIDANCE IAS
of ‘Green Revolution’ in India is the use of
the second chemical fertilisers. The crop yield per
largest producer with 11 per cent of MOthe
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hectare in India was too low previ-ously. But
world’s production followed by USA (8.4%), with the increasing demand and food deficit,
Ukraine (6.4%) and Russia (5.8%). Apart from the country has given special attention to
the countries mentioned in Table 11.5, the production of chemical fertilisers.
Netherlands, UK, Germany, France, Spain,
Turkey, Iran, Brazil, South Africa and • As a result, there has been a rapid growth
Uzbekistan are the other producers of of chemical fertiliser industry in India during
nitrogen fertilisers. last five decades and now India is the third
largest producer of nitrogenous fertilisers
Phosphate Fertilisers in the world. India’s average annual
• Phosphate fertilisers, generally known as production of nitrog-enous fertiliser is 12
phosphorus have often been called the million tons and phosphatic fertiliser is 4.5
master key to agriculture, as low crop million tons.
production more often is due to a lack of • The Government of India has established a
phosphorus. Phosphorus fertilisers are number of industries of national
classified into three types, e.g., water- importance. The fertiliser industry is one of
soluble phosphorous, citrate-soluble them. The Fertiliser Corporation of India is
phosphorus, and insoluble phosphorus. a public sector company, which is the most
• The fossil remains of animal life in the form important fertiliser producer company of
of phosphate rock are the largest source of India. In India, about 60 factories are
phosphorus today. Most of the rock actually producing chemical fertilisers in
phosphate reserves of the world are different parts of the country along with
concentrated in North Africa, USA and about 70 medium and small-scale units.
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• As a part of agricultural development the species of spruce, fir, and pine for
programme, a large-scale factory of ‘mechanical’ pulps; and aspen, polar and
Fertiliser Corporation of India, has been other deciduous trees for ‘chemical’ pulp.
started at Sindri (Bihar). The factory • Mechanical pulps are made by grinding the
produces mostly ammonium sulphate and wood and are used for inferior kinds of
to a lesser extent urea and ammonium paper. Chemical pulps are made by
nitrate. It has a daily capacity of 1000 tons. dissolving wood into pulp through chemical
Other important factories of the solutions. These are generally used for
Corporation are located at Nangal (Punjab), better quality paper. At present, wood pulp
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), Trombay is largely used in the production of
(Maharashtra) and Namrup (Assam). In 1966, newsprint only, in the manufacture of which
the Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. two kinds of pulps are mixed together in
had set up its factory with seven giant plants proportion of 70 mechanical and 30
near Baroda. Indian Farmers Fertilizer chemical. The use of wood pulp for paper
Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) has set up a big of other kinds also is, however, growing fast,
factory at Kandla port. The other major owing to the improvements being made in
centres of chemical fertiliser industry in pulp making.
India are Neyveli (Ennore), Alwaye,
Factors of Localisation
Mangalore, Coimbatore, Paradeep, Korba,
Kampti, Guna, Kota, Bhatinda, Barauni, • The location of pulp and paper industry is
Durgapur, etc. A large number of modern of immense importance because of some
fertiliser plants have been set up using specific requirements for this industry.
diverse feedstocks and technology to Production of paper, nowadays is done
manufacture a wide range of fertilisers like through several integrated processes,
superphosphate, urea, ammonia sulphate, where modern technologies are involved.
and various grades of complex fertilisers. Generally, two types of paper and pulp mills
are seen in the world, i.e.,
(i) raw material-based, and (ii) market-based.
5. PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY
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In some countries, mills produce only paper
• All types of writing work is done on M paper,
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while in other countries they produce wood
thus, paper is considered as a base of
pulp as well as paper. The pulp is mostly used
modern civilisation. There are evidences
by paper industries. Therefore, for obvious
that paper was first made in China in 105 AD
reasons, pulp and paper industries are
. The use of wood pulp with rags for making
always concentrated near raw material
paper began in Germany in 1840 and in USA
source. The mills engaged in the production
in 1880. Thereafter, throughout the 20th
of only paper generally show affinity
century, most of the world’s paper has been
towards the market. The composite mills
made from wood pulp and this process is
which cover all the manufacturing processes
still going on. In fact, paper is a forest-based
are generally located near the raw material
industry. Both pulp and paper industry are
source. The general tendency of the
complementary to each other. Paper is
present-day paper mills is to be near the
usually manufactured from wood fibres. The
market. The transhipment cost of paper is
rounded wood and processed wood is
not very high. Therefore, to be acquainted
converted into wood pulp, which is
with the changing mood of customers, paper
considered as a principal raw material of
industries locate within the periphery of
paper industry.
consumer centres. In the case of the paper
• The importance of wood pulp is fast manufacturing units, using waste paper and
growing. The main uses to which wood pulp cardboards, are located near the market,
is at present put to are the manufacture of because market is the major supplier of the
paper and cellulose which is then used for raw materials.
the manufacture of artificial silk. The chief
• The locational factors of the pulp and paper
woods used for the manufacture of pulp are
industry may be summarised as follows:
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Finland exports bulk of her paper products. handmade paper in the world. The modern
Japan paper industry was started only after the
coming of communist regime, but soon
• Japan is third in paper production and fourth
China became a leading producer of paper
in wood pulp production in the world. The
in Asia and also ranks 10th in production of
major factors favourable for the rapid
newsprint in the world. The main centres
growth of Japanese paper industry are:
of paper industry in China are located at
(i) Vast forest resources of the country, fapan Canton, Tientsin, Jidong, Hankow, Tianjin,
is having 25 million hectares of forest area. Ningguo and Kyamuje.
(ii) The cheap hydel-power harnessed from India
short turbulent mountain rivers.
• In India, paper industry is developing at a
(iii) Entrepreneurship ability of the fast rate. From a production of about 1 lakh
industrialists and patriotic zeal of the ton in 1950, now its production is more than
average Japanese worker. 40 lakh tons. In the earlier stage, paper
(iv) Vast market at home and abroad. industry was predominantly localised in the
(v) Low production cost, due to the adoptation Hooghly basin of West Bengal. In the later
of sophisticated technology and low wage stage there has been growth of paper mills
rate of the workers. in many other pa:rts of the country, but West
Bengal still leads. Other states having paper
• The leading centres of paper production are mills are Bihar, Odisha, Maharashtra,
Kwanto plain which includes Tokyo, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh,
Kawasaki and Yokohama, Ise Bay including Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala,
Nagowa and Kitakyushu region. Himachal Pradesh and Assam. The
Russia Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd. is a public
• Russia produces about 12 lakh metric tons sector undertaking and has three mills, one
of paper annually and is also important in located in Nagaland and two in Assam.
wood pulp production. Most of the paper National Newsprint and Paper Mills was
established in 1965 at Nepanagar (NEPA Ltd.)
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Leningrad, Ivanovo, Oblast, UralMOand
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Moscow. Several factors helped in the paper industry is the production of Indian
growth of paper industry. The most board. Now India is producing several types
important one is the largest forest cover of paper and also imports paper for specific
spread over in central and eastern part of purposes to fulfil the growing demand.
the country. The cheap supply of electricity • In addition to the above, the other paper-
and widespread market are the other producing countries in the world are
causes. Norway, France, Italy, Brazil, Republic of
China Korea, Argentina, Netherlands, Indonesia,
Thailand, Poland, Spain, Mexico, Australia,
• China is considered to be the pioneer of
etc.
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10. Patterns of world trade goods up the west coast of Arabia, linking
India with Egypt, Phoenicia and
Mesopotamia.
PATTERN OF WORLD TRADE A trade route from China: 2nd century
• Trade is the exchange of goods and services BC(Development of Silk Route)
between countries. • A tentative trade route is becoming
• Goods bought into a country are called established along a string of oases north of
imports, and those sold to another country the Himalayas. They are very exposed to
are called exports. the broad expanse of steppes - from which
• Trade pattern reveals degree, direction and marauding bands of nomadic tribemen are
basket of of goods and services among trade liable to descend at any moment - but
partners. protection by the Han Dynasty in China is
now making it reasonably safe for
merchants to send caravans into this region.
History of Trade The goods are usually unloaded in each
• Trade has been the part of human oasis and traded or bartered before
civilisation ever since the beginning of continuing the journey westwards - where
primitive economy. As the people rich customers around the Mediterranean
interacted, newer means of transport and are eager for the luxury products of the east.
new routes were discovered and • In the 1st century BC the Romans gain control
colonialism grew trade expanded. For of Syria and Palestine - the natural terminus
categorical purposes it can be divided into of the Silk Road, for goods can move west
three periods- a) Pre-Industrialisation , b) more easily from here by sea. Soon a special
Industrialisation period & c) Post- silk market is established in Rome.
Industrialisation period.
World trade: from the 1st century AD
Pre-Industrialisation Period
• The Silk Road links east Asia and western
Waterborne traffic: 3000-1000 BC Europe at a time when each has, in its own
• By far the easiest method ofGUIDANCE
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region, a more sophisticated commercial
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network than ever before.
towns and villages are linked by footpaths • The caravan routes of the Middle East and
rather than roads. The first extensive trade the shipping lanes of the Mediterranean
routes are up and down the great rivers have provided the world’s oldest trading
which become the backbones of early system, ferrying goods to and fro between
civilizations - the Nile, the Tigris and civilizations from India to Phoenicia. Now
Euphrates, the Indus and the Yellow River. the Roman dominance of the entire
Ivory,linen, gold, timber and glass products Mediterranean, and of Europe as far north
were the main goods that were traded. as Britain, gives the merchants vast new
The caravan: from 1000 BC scope to the west. At the same time a
• In the parched regions of north Africa and maritime link, of enormous commercial
Asia two different species of camel become potential, opens up between India and
the most important beasts of burden - the China.
single-humped Arabian camel (in north • The map of the world offers no route so
Africa, the Middle East, India) and the promising to a merchant vessel as the
double-humped Bactrian camel (central coastal journey from India to China. Down
Asia, Mongolia). Both are well adapted to through the Straits of Malacca and then up
desert conditions. They can derive water, through the South China Sea, there are at
when none is available elsewhere, from the all times inhabited coasts not far off to
fat stored in their humps. either side. It is no accident that Calcutta is
• It is probable that they are first now at one end of the journey, Hong Kong
domesticated in Arabia. By about 1000 BC at the other, and Singapore in the middle.
caravans of camels are bringing precious
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• Indian merchants are trading along this of a number of agreements embodying the
route by the 1st century AD, bringing with new liberal ideas about trade, among them
them the two religions, Hinduism and the Anglo-French Treaty of 1786, which
Buddhism, which profoundly influence this ended what had been an economic war
entire region. between the two countries.
Rise of Mercantilism • After Adam Smith, the basic tenets of
• Mercantilist analysis, which reached the mercantilism were no longer considered
peak of its influence upon European thought defensible. This did not, however, mean
in the 16th and 17th centuries, focused that nations abandoned all mercantilist
directly upon the welfare of the nation. It policies. Restrictive economic policies were
insisted that the acquisition of wealth, now justified by the claim that, up to a
particularly wealth in the form of gold, was certain point, the government should keep
of paramount importance for national foreign merchandise off the domestic
policy. market in order to shelter national
production from outside competition. To
• The trade policy dictated by mercantilist
this end, customs levies were introduced
philosophy was accordingly simple:
in increasing number, replacing outright
encourage exports, discourage imports, and
bans on imports, which became less and
take the proceeds of the resulting export
less frequent.
surplus in gold. Mercantilists’ ideas often
were intellectually shallow, and indeed • In the middle of the 19th century, a
their trade policy may have been little more protective customs policy effectively
than a rationalization of the interests of a sheltered many national economies from
rising merchant class that wanted wider outside competition. The French tariff of
markets—hence the emphasis on 1860, for example, charged extremely high
expanding exports—coupled with rates on British products: 60 percent on pig
protection against competition in the form iron; 40 to 50 percent on machinery; and 600
of imported goods. to 800 percent on woolen blankets.
Transport costs between the two countries
• A typical illustration of the GUIDANCE
mercantilist IASfurther protection.
provided
spirit is the English Navigation Act ofM1651
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(see Navigation Acts), which reserved for the • A triumph for liberal ideas was the Anglo-
home country the right to trade with its French trade agreement of 1860, which
colonies and prohibited the import of goods provided that French protective duties were
of non-European origin unless transported to be reduced to a maximum of 25 percent
in ships flying the English flag. This law within five years, with free entry of all
lingered until 1849. A similar policy was French products except wines into Britain.
followed in France. This agreement was followed by other
European trade pacts.
Industrialisation period
Post-Industrialisation period
• A strong reaction against mercantilist
attitudes began to take shape toward the • The late twentieth century marked a
middle of the 18th century. In France, the watershed in the world economy. First,
economists known as Physiocrats industrialized countries experienced a
demanded liberty of production and trade. slowdown in their economic growth rates,
In England, economist Adam Smith in part due to the petroshocks of the 1970s
demonstrated in his book The Wealth of and the ensuing deindustrialization.
Nations (1776) the advantages of removing Increases in oil prices reduced real income
trade restrictions. Economists and in the advanced countries and dealt a
businessmen voiced their opposition to particularly harsh blow to the oil-importing
excessively high and often prohibitive Third World countries. These oil shocks left
customs duties and urged the negotiation a permanent imprint on the structure of
of trade agreements with foreign powers. global finance,trade, and investment.
This change in attitudes led to the signing
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• Geography remains vital in determining MOthe Pattern
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G..... Trade
trade pattern because it commands a great • The past three turbulent decades witnessed
influence over demand and supply major changes in the volume and
dynamics in an economy. composition of international trade. World
1) Location/Accessibility: Development of trade in goods and services jumped from $2
transport and communication networks, trillion in 1980 to over $6.7 trillion in 2007,
new means of transport, opening up of new or more than 36% of gross world product, a
trade routes transcending the geographical clear sign of the increasing integration of
barriers like mountains, oceans and the national economies (Figure 1), although this
inertia of distance. number declined slightly in the face of the
global economic crisis of 2008. Of these
2) Availability of resources: exploration of
exports, agricultural goods comprised 7.6%
new resources, localised presence such as
by value; mining ores, fuels and minerals
oil in the middle- east, decides the direction
another 10.8%; all manufactured goods
of trade, loss of initial advantage leading to
61.3%; and all services 20.2%. Because a
Industrial Inertia.
small group of economically developed
countries produce the bulk of the world’s
3) Demographic factors:(a) Supply of labour- tradable goods, and have the disposable
establishment of new industries in incomes to afford imports, global trade is
developing nations such as India, largely confined to a “triad” consisting of
Bangladesh etc. (b) Market creating demand Europe, North America, and East Asia .
for the product-Asia,Africa, Latin America
etc due to huge population base and raising
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rose from $100 billion in 1995 to $560 billion Stated (CIS), and the Caribbean, their main
in 2010. Its share in world trade improved exports destinations were Europe, Asia and
modestly from 2.0 per cent to 3.2 per cent. North America. (WTO 2010).
• East and South Asia include three of the • The emergence of regional trading blocs,
most dynamic emerging economies: China, where members freely trade with each
India and the Republic of Korea. other, but erect barriers to trade with non-
• They accounted for around one third of members, has had a significant impact on
world exports and two thirds of developing the pattern of global trade. While the
country exports in 2010, as can be seen in formation of blocs, such as the European
the graph below. Union and NAFTA, has led to trade
creation between members, countries
• Experts believe that rapid growth markets
outside the bloc have suffered from trade
in developing world will become an even
diversion.
more dominant force in global trade over
the coming decade, with the Asia-Pacific • Intra developing country trade or South-
region set to experience the fastest growth South (SS) trade has been growing in the
in global trade to 2020. past decade. SS exports between 1995 and
2005 increased by 197% compared to exports
• Trade will also be increasingly focused
to the rest of the world which only increased
around Asia, the Middle East and Africa,
by 143%. In Asia, 51% of its exports to the
suggesting that the key geographical
world went to the South and for Africa and
location for companies will change.
the Americas; exports to the South were
• Europe’s exports to Africa and the Middle 30% and 27% of their total exports.
East by 2020 are forecast to be almost twice
• Inter-regional trade is also growing with the
as large as Europe’s exports to the US.
emergence of global hubs, centred on
• China’s dominance in low cost South Africa, Brazil and China. These hubs
manufactured goods will come under have allowed an expansion in African
pressure from countries such as exports, where most of their exports have
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• Newly industrialised countries like India and pattern emerged where manufacturing is
China have dramatically increased their concentrated in Asia, agriculture in the
share of world trade and their share of Americas (Caribbean, Central America,
manufacturing exports. China, in particular, South America) and resource based
has emerged as an economic super-power. production (mainly fuel) in Africa.
China’s share of world trade has increased
in all areas, and not just in clothing and low- 6) Share of Agriculture,Manufacturing and
tech goods. For example, in 1995, the US had services in Global Trade
captured nearly 25% of global trade in hi-
• Export of merchandise trade is mainly in
tech goods, while China had only 3%. By
manufactured goods which contracted by
2005, the US share had fallen to 15%, while
15.5% in volume terms with a total share of
China’s share had risen to 15%.
68.9%, with chemicals (11.9%) and office
and telecom equipment (10.9%) being the
5) Dominance of Intra-regional trade main exports.
• Intra-regional trade currently dominates • Agricultural products have a 9.6% share in
world trade. Europe accounted for 72% of total merchandise exports and fuels and
all European trade, 52% of Asians exports mining products an 18.6% share. (WTO 2010)
remained within Asia and 48% of North • In terms of commercial services trade, it
American exports remained in North now accounts for more than 20% of total
America. However for the Middle East, trade.. The services sector was hardest hit
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due to the economic situation with income countries, i.e., two-way trade in
transport and financial services sectors similar products between similar countries,
feeling the brunt of the impact. e.g. the French export cars and import
Trade among North and South division: German cars 3
• In geo-economics lexicon, Trade between • Changed in past decade where growth in
US, Canada, Western Europe and Japan countries such as China and India suggest
usually referred to as North-North trade. differences in technology/resources are
strong motivations for trade 3 Hanson (2012)
• South-South commerce (trade between
suggests there has been return to notion of
developing countries), and North-South
comparative advantage North–South Trade.
commerce (trade between developed and
developing countries) are the common S-S
and N-S trade blocks. Regional Analysis of Trade Pattern
South–South Trade • Despite the common trade pattern,the
*Key explanation put forward for growth in volume, growth, and composition of trade
South-South trade is - vary widely among the world’s major trading
countries and regions in a significant way.
• expansion of multistage global production
networks . The United States
• Offshoring of production allows firms to • The United States is by far the world’s largest
fragment manufacturing across borders by trading nation, accounting for more than $4
locating specific production stages in trillion worth of combined exports and
countries with lowest cost . imports in 2008. During the 1950s, it
accounted for 25% of total world trade but
• Increased specialization by emerging now accounts for only 19%, a reflection of
economies for global markets. the growing competitiveness of other
*Growing South-South trade along lines of countries, particularly in Europe and East
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*For low-income countries 70% of
following the petroshocks of the 1970s and
agricultural export growth and 73% of raw
deindustrialization, this surplus turned into
materials growth due to shipments to low-
growing trade deficits. In 2008,trade deficit
/middle-income countries.
was about $780 billion, compared with $75
* Low-income countries send most of their billion in 1993. When trade in services and
output of clothing and shoes to high-income returns to capital investments are included
countries . (i.e., in the current account), the enormous
*Middle-income countries export diverse size of the U.S. deficit puts it in a unique
set of goods: agriculture (Argentina and position internationally . The major U.S.
Brazil); metals (Russia, Korea, South Africa, trading partners include Canada, China,
and Chile); electronics (Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, and Japan.
Thailand, and Philippines); transportation • The destination of U.S. exports has
equipment (Korea, Mexico, Poland, and gradually undergone an important shift—
Turkey). away from the traditional European markets
North–South Trade and toward East Asia, Mexico, and Canada.
The reasons behind this change include the
• In 1980s and 1990s, due to dominance of rapidly growing economies of Asia, so that
high-income countries in global trade, trans-Pacific trade now exceeds that across
orthodox models of trade (Ricardian/ the Atlantic. Another reason is the progress
Heckscher-Ohlin) went out of made under the World Trade Organization
fashion.Specifically could not explain in liberalizing tariffs in many countries.
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world’s total. In this region, Japan investment in the region, especially in Japan
traditionally took the lead role. Since the and the Four Tigers, grew tenfold.
1960s, Japan has been joined by the Four China
Tigers of Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore,
• Following a long period of isolation lasting
and Hong Kong. More recently, however,
into the 1950s and 1960s, China opened up
new emerging tigers followed suit with
to international trade and investment after
rapidly growing economies: Thailand,
the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. During
Malaysia, Indonesia, and China.
the 1980s, under the policies of Deng
• While the rest of the world reeled from two Xiaoping, China allowed foreign companies
major oil price hikes in the 1970s, East Asia to set up joint ventures there. Special
forged ahead with unprecedented growth. Economic Zones (SEZs) were created along
Several factors contributed to this success, the coast to produce goods for world
including U.S. economic and military markets. These economic zones received
subsidies, the Confucian culture dedicated tax incentives but were subject to much
to learning, and governments that actively legal red tape. Today, China has become a
promoted a shift into export promotion. In major actor in world trade . It has an
addition, Japan and other countries enormous pool of workers, low wages, and
protected home markets with high import relatively high levels of worker productivity.
duties.
• Primary trading partners being Japan and the
• The East Asian/Pacific governments United States.
switched from import substitution to export
• Over the last two decades, China recorded
promotion, with a new emphasis on
an annual growth in GDP of 8% to 14%,
electronics, automobiles, steel, textiles,
continuing the surge in investment led
and consumer goods, whereas the other
growth that began in the 1980s. Indeed, if
developing countries in Latin America,
current rates of economic growth continue,
Africa, and South Asia did not have such
China may well be the world’s largest
policies. From 1970 to 2000, foreign
economy by 2040.
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MAJOR GLOBAL TRADE FLOWS parts. Japan and the East Asian countries,
• Six major commodity groups merit further especially the Four Tigers of South Korea,
attention as fundamental to understanding Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, together
international patterns of trade: dominate the world production and export
microelectronics, automobiles, steel, of microelectronics.
textiles and clothing, grains and feed, and • United States no longer leads the world in
non-oil commodities. the manufacture of semiconductors, it is still
Microelectronics a major player in the global trade flow of
• Microelectronics includes semiconductors, microelectronics; the single largest flow of
integrated circuits and parts for integrated these products is from the United States to
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western European nations of the EU and the developing countries, including Central
European Free Trade Area (EFTA) account for America, South Asia, and parts of East and
a much smaller proportion of overseas trade Southeast Asia (e.g., China, Thailand,
in this category. Indonesia), where labor costs are much
Automobiles lower. Correspondingly, textile production
in the past 40 years declined in the United
• Automobiles account for the largest single
States and Western Europe. International
flow of trade within the EU. Exports of
trade in textiles reflects these shifts in
automobiles within and from Europe have
production. Developing countries account
been heavy. Germany is Europe’s largest
for a growing share of global textile exports.
producer of cars, followed by France, Spain,
Major gainers include the East Asian
and the United Kingdom. The United States
countries of China, Hong Kong, South Korea,
imports large volumes of European
and Taiwan. Eastern Europe, Russia, Japan,
automobiles as well, including Mercedes,
and Canada are relatively small players in
Audis, Porsches, BMWs, Volkswagens,
the world textile and clothing trade.
Peugeots, Fiats, and Renaults. Between
1960 and 2007, Japanese automobile Grains and Feed
manufacturers made major penetrations in • Wheat, corn, rice, other cereals, feed grains,
the world automobile market , including and soybeans are included in the category
the European automobile market. The of grains and feed. The United States is the
largest volume of flow of trade in world leader in this category, although
automobiles, however, is from Japan to the Canada is also a major exporter. Among the
United States; automobiles are the developing countries, India, Egypt, and
commodity responsible for the largest hare Argentina are some of the largest net
of the U.S. trade deficit. exporters. Japan, with its small base of
Steel agriculture and arable land, is a net importer,
as is Eastern Europe and Russia. Trade within
• America has lost as much as two-thirds of
the EU is large. Grains, feeds, and food
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in steel production and trade. In addition,
fertilizers are now commonplace in Third
the EU sends billions of dollars worth of
World nations, and the Green Revolution
steel to developing countries, although the
has made it possible for some developing
single largest flow of steel is from Japan to
countries to provide for themselves.
developing countries.
Non-oil Commodities
• In the post–World War II period, steel made
by traditional producers in Europe and North • The term commodities has different
America became uncompetitive as new meanings, but in the discourse of
production centers began to emerge in international trade it is often taken to mean
Brazil, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. The raw materials. Non-oil commodities include
migration of steel production to the Third copper, aluminum, nickel, zinc, tin, iron ore,
World reflected the growing importance of pig iron, uranium ore, crude rubber, wood
labor costs, government subsidies, and and pulp, hides, cotton fiber, and animal
taxes to the delivered cost of steel. There and vegetable minerals and oils. The United
are a few problems of the British and U.S. States is a large exporter of this broad group
steel industries: insufficient reinvestment, of goods, primarily to the economies of
reluctant unions, narrow-minded Europe and Japan, but the developing
management, and lack of government countries of the world lead in the export of
support of an ailing industry. raw materials. The largest single flow of raw
materials is from developing countries to
Textiles and Clothing
Japan, which lacks significant natural
• Labor-intensive textile and clothing resources and arable land, and from
manufacture has largely shifted to developing countries to Western Europe.
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Since the early days of capitalism, the • China has increased supply of educated
international division of labor was based on labor, attracted investment by multinational
international trade, which led the world’s firms, and improved transport and
periphery—colonies and today’s less communications – it likely has increasing
developed countries—to trade their raw comparative advantage in electronics.
materials for industrialized goods, primarily 2) Resurgence of multinational Economic
from Europe and other developed nations Organisation
in North America and Japan.
• As nations turn inward to concentrate on
problems of economic growth and stability,
we are witnessing a resurgence of
Evolving Trade Pattern protectionism. But also in evidence is a
strong, simultaneous countermovement
1) Recent dynamics of specialisation:
toward international interdependence.
• Middle-income countries moved from Scores of multinational organizations have
specializing in apparel and footwear in 1994 sprung up that for the most part are loosely
to electronics by 2008 . connected leagues entailing little or no
• Consistent with middle-income countries surrender of sovereignty on the part of
accumulating human and physical capital member nations.
pushing them out of labour intensive into • Some of these international organizations
more capital-intensive goods . are global in scale, the most inclusive being
• Low-income countries such as Bangladesh the United Nations (UN), with 191 member
and Vietnam are filling the space vacated nations.
by middle-income countries in apparel. •Other international organizations have a
• Large changes in specialization have also regional character; for example, the
occurred in countries such as China. Association of South-East Asian Nations
• China not just switching from assembling (ASEAN) and the Asian Development Bank
shoes to assembling computers, but (ADB). Many international organizations are
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value-added, e.g., Huawei (mobile phones) Organization (NATO), or economic, such as
and Lenovo (laptops). the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC).
• Some doubt China’s export strength in
electronics is due to comparative • Regional economic integration blocs are the
advantage, but rather to industrial policy the new realities of the world translating
(Rodrik, 2006) – but Hanson (2012) argues into various types of associations as shown
stock of human capital would indicate below.
specialization is not unwarranted .
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