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What are the social factors influencing agriculture?

Discuss the social factors that influence agriculture.

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Maurice
(i) Religious beliefs,for example, the Hindu community do not practice commercial cattle rearing because they treat the cow as a sacred animal. Muslims do not rear pigs because it is forbidden in holy book.

(ii) Gender/roles: in some communities, food production is solely the responsibility of women and children.

(iii) Tradition can influence the kind of crops grown or the animals kept and the scale of farming. The types of crops grown in most parts of Kenya depend on the traditional foods of the various communities. Some communities may concentrate on growing finger millet because it is their staple food while others grow maize or bananas because it is their main food crop.

(iv) Land ownership/ inheritance can affect the type of farming and crops grown. Large-scale farming may not be possible where a land-owners is required by tradition to subdivide the land among the children or where the land is subdivided into smaller plots during inheritance.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on June 14, 2017 at 13:04

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