World economic geography
World crop and livestock regions
Practise 1 PYQConcepts to cover
- Wheat, rice, maize, barley: conditions of growth and world regions
- Leading producers and exporters of cereals
- Tea (China, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka), coffee (Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia), cocoa (Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana lead)
- Cotton, jute and substitutes, natural rubber (Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam), sugarcane and sugar beet, tobacco
- Livestock regions: beef (pampas, US Great Plains), dairy (north-west Europe, New Zealand), wool (Australia)
Where to study
Fundamentals of Human Geography, Class XII, chapter 4: Primary Activities (Reprint 2026-27)
- ch. 4, Primary Activities, p. 1-14 (book pages 22-35)
- ch. 4, wheat, p. 7-8 (book pages 28-29)
- ch. 4, Intensive Subsistence Agriculture, p. 5-6 (book pages 26-27)
- ch. 4, Plantation Agriculture, p. 7 (book page 28)
- ch. 4, Commercial Livestock Rearing, p. 3-4 (book pages 24-25)
- ch. 4, Dairy Farming, p. 8-9 (book pages 29-30)
Certificate Physical and Human Geography · Goh Cheng Leong
- ch. 15, The Hot, Wet Equatorial Climate
UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus: Geography (Prelims)
- Productivity of Crops and conditions for growth
- Wheat; Rice; Maize
- Production pattern
- Beverages
- Fibre Crops; Sugarcane