Agriculture
Crops and other things produced in this region include: rice, potatoes, sorghum, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed, pork, fish, peanuts, sugar cane, beets, poultry, eggs, soybeans, cattle, milk, fruit...and many other vegetables and root plants.
Japan has the largest yearly haul of fish, topping out at 10 million metric tons...
Farming in East Asia mostly consists of the Lowland Rice Method, which as the name implies, uses a lot of rice; the Tree-Crop Mixed Method, which is where things like coconut and fruit trees are grown; the Upland Intensive Method occurs on hills of large or small altitude and slope; the Temperate Mixed Farming Method is not easily distinguished from that of the lowland rice method, but one large difference is the fact that with this method only 1/3 of the area is irrigated; the Pastoral Farming Method is used largely in Mongolia, is characterized by mixed herds of camels, cattle, sheep and goats extensively grazing native pasture; the Sparse Forest System is generally only used by villages or other small areas because of the small number of people this method can support; and the final method which is Terraced Farming happens when farmers are planting in an area which is hilly and does not have anywhere flat to grow crops, the farmers cut "stairs" into the sides of the hills and grow crops on them.
This region most certainly faces many, many agricultural challenges in East Asia not the smallest of which are the annual monsoons that plague the southern portion. These rains cause extreme flooding in some areas and others have droughts during the rest of the year. Another agriculture-based issue in East Asia are the hills and mountains ranges; having all of these sloping areas makes it difficult to farm and grow crops, but people do it none-the-less by employing a range of methods to make agriculture a success in even the toughest places.
Japan has the largest yearly haul of fish, topping out at 10 million metric tons...
Farming in East Asia mostly consists of the Lowland Rice Method, which as the name implies, uses a lot of rice; the Tree-Crop Mixed Method, which is where things like coconut and fruit trees are grown; the Upland Intensive Method occurs on hills of large or small altitude and slope; the Temperate Mixed Farming Method is not easily distinguished from that of the lowland rice method, but one large difference is the fact that with this method only 1/3 of the area is irrigated; the Pastoral Farming Method is used largely in Mongolia, is characterized by mixed herds of camels, cattle, sheep and goats extensively grazing native pasture; the Sparse Forest System is generally only used by villages or other small areas because of the small number of people this method can support; and the final method which is Terraced Farming happens when farmers are planting in an area which is hilly and does not have anywhere flat to grow crops, the farmers cut "stairs" into the sides of the hills and grow crops on them.
This region most certainly faces many, many agricultural challenges in East Asia not the smallest of which are the annual monsoons that plague the southern portion. These rains cause extreme flooding in some areas and others have droughts during the rest of the year. Another agriculture-based issue in East Asia are the hills and mountains ranges; having all of these sloping areas makes it difficult to farm and grow crops, but people do it none-the-less by employing a range of methods to make agriculture a success in even the toughest places.