State the factors Affecting Mining Activity.
Factors Affecting Mining Activity:
What is mining?
An economic activity concerned with the extraction of commercially valuable minerals from the bowels of the earth.
What is transhumance?
The process of migration from plain areas to pastures on mountains during summers and again from mountain pastures to plain areas during winters is known as transhumance.
Describe truck farming.
Truck farming:
(i)The regions where farmers specialise in vegetables only, the farming is know as truck farming.
(ii)The distance of truck farms from the market is governed by the distance that a truck can cover overnight, hence the name truck farming.