case study: a farm or agricultural system

•case study: rice farming at Dambulla, Sri Lanka

•inputs

          •temperature (28 degrees celsius)

          •rainfall (1000mm)

          •rich clay / loam soils

          •no machinery

          •no physical labour from children as they go to school, but uses an oxen

          •uses oxen manure as fertiliser 

          •flat land due to being on the River Mahaweli

          •small land of 2ha 

•processes 

          •ploughing of the oxen 

          •picking bananas e.g in the Jathika forest

          •planting (rice, sweet potatoes, manioc, chilliest and cabbages) 

          •rice is grown in flooded fields 

•outputs 

          •cabbage 

          •chillies 

          •bananas 

          •sweet potatoes 

          •rice 

          •manioc 

•how is an income made 

          •hires out oxen for £1 a day

          •selling fruit (bananas, cabbages and fruit) at a roadside stall

          •20 bananas for 25p

•why is an income made 

          •75% live in rural areas

          •land was inherited as it's a tradition

          •need to live