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Read again the meaning of “land” in the production process. Give three examples, other than agriculture, where this requirement is most significant in the process of production.

Land is an important factor for farm production.

The forests are cleared in order to make it a plain and make use of it for cultivation. The farmers purchase the land or inherit it from their ancestors or the landlords make the farmers work as a tenant on their land.


The intensive use of natural resources like water and land might have increased production but have decreased the quantity of these natural resources.


1. The land is not only used for the agricultural process, but it is also used as setting up of the production unit, to derive products from raw crops.


2. The land is used as a market yard i.e. for buying and selling purposes.


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