HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The first zone, according to von Thünen, will be used to produce products that spoil quickly, like fresh fruit, vegetables, and dairy. These have to be close to market because they can’t be transported very far.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main assumption of Von Thunen’s model is that agricultural land use is formed as concentric circles around the central market; the latter consumes all the surplus production, which must be transported from the rural areas to the market.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fourth, von Thünen contended that the farmers would transport their own goods to market (no FedEx here), and that they would do so by oxcart, overland, straight to the city.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are generally four main circles around the city that consist, from nearest to a town and moving outwards, of: 1) intense farming, 2) forest lands, 3) extensive farming, and 4) grazing. Rent prices for land are high near a city.