Agriculture Information for Kazakhstan
Total Area- 2,724,900 sq km
Land Area- 2,699,700 sq km Water Area- 25,200 sq km Climate description- continental, cold winters and hot summers, arid and semiarid Terrain description- vast flat steppe extending from the Volga in the west to the Altai Mountains in the east and from the plains of western Siberia in the north to oases and deserts of Central Asia in the south Arable Land Use- 8.82% Permanent Crop Land Use- 0.03% Irrigated Land- 20,660 sq km (2010) Total Renewable Water Resources- 107.5 cu km (2011) Total Freshwater Withdrawal- 21.14 cu km/yr (4%/30%/66%) Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal- 1,304 cu m/yr (2010) % of Labor Force in Agriculture- 25.8% Agricultural Products description- grain (mostly spring wheat and barley), potatoes, vegetables, melons; livestock In the United States, we have a lesser amount of agricultural labor workers than Kazakhstan, which is at 25.8%. This shows us that Kazakhstan is probably an LDC and the United States is an MDC because of the labor percentage in both countries. The United States has greater land area and greater arable land so that means we can produce more products than Kazakhstan because of the greater amount of land used for plowing. |
1st Picture- Wheat
2nd Picture- Cattle 3rd Picture- Pigs 4th Picture- Potatoes 5th Picture- Melons 6th picture- Vegetables www.google.com |