ABSTRACT
Agricultural geography has evolved as an academic discipline, initially descriptive, but developing its own analytical procedures as its practitioners refined their methods of statistical and cartographic representation of relevant data in a constant search for greater objectivity in their depiction of the agricultural landscape. Professional geographers and other research workers studying the landscape for its own intrinsic interest have tended to be content with developing concepts and methods for the better analysis of problems of an academic nature. Any contribution that agricultural geography can make towards providing means of feeding adequately the world's growing population, is ultimately more important than its academic justification. Geographical methods can be used advantageously in analysis of farm units, patterns of cropping and livestock, intensity of usage, diffusion of techniques, effects of changed methods, land tenure patterns, transport networks, effects of marketing schemes and subsidies, and innumerable other aspects of agriculture.
