HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
GENERAL AGRICULTURE
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Question
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All of the following are assumptions in the classical von Thünen rural land use model EXCEPT ..
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Rural land is equally productive, regardless of its proximity to the central city.
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More-extensive land uses will develop farther from the city than intensive farming practices.
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There is only one marketplace.
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Transportation costs are unrelated to distance.
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The land was flat throughout the rural plane.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Von Thünen’s model helps explain the relationship between the cost of land and the cost to transport the crop to market.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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