Why Canada's Ecozone Challenges To The Agricultural Industry
Canada's ecozones are split up based on a number of factors, such as climate, precipitation, or flora and fauna. So, each ecozone presents different challenges to the agricultural industry.
For example, The Taiga Plains had absolutely no farmland in 1971, and even in 2011 the ecozone remained an outlier with only 8 930 acres. In comparison, the ecozone with the second smallest amount of farmland, The Pacific Maritime, had 158 831 acres, which is about 19 times larger than the amount of farmland in The Taiga Plains. The Taiga Plains occupy a large portion of Canada's Northwest Territories and small parts of eastern Yukon, northern Alberta, and northeastern British Columbia. The ecozone is notorious for having cool, short summers and harsh, long winters. …show more content…
Not even the native people who have occupied this ecozone throughout history have dared to start large farms there. I assume that, for a farm to survive in such a harsh climate, a farmer would have to overcome a huge financial risk. So, the reason why farms have been able to start operating in the ecozone between 1971 and 2011 is because large farming companies can afford the risks involved with using Canada's cold, undeveloped land. Smaller farms that lack resources and employees would struggle to deal with the weather conditions, let alone operate in complete isolation.
Meanwhile, The Prairies are another outlier, with its total farming area occupying almost three times the amount of land as The Boreal Plains, which is the ecozone with the second largest farmland area. The Prairies stretch along southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Before humans started to develop farms on the land, The Prairies were mostly composed of flat
For example, The Taiga Plains had absolutely no farmland in 1971, and even in 2011 the ecozone remained an outlier with only 8 930 acres. In comparison, the ecozone with the second smallest amount of farmland, The Pacific Maritime, had 158 831 acres, which is about 19 times larger than the amount of farmland in The Taiga Plains. The Taiga Plains occupy a large portion of Canada's Northwest Territories and small parts of eastern Yukon, northern Alberta, and northeastern British Columbia. The ecozone is notorious for having cool, short summers and harsh, long winters. …show more content…
Not even the native people who have occupied this ecozone throughout history have dared to start large farms there. I assume that, for a farm to survive in such a harsh climate, a farmer would have to overcome a huge financial risk. So, the reason why farms have been able to start operating in the ecozone between 1971 and 2011 is because large farming companies can afford the risks involved with using Canada's cold, undeveloped land. Smaller farms that lack resources and employees would struggle to deal with the weather conditions, let alone operate in complete isolation.
Meanwhile, The Prairies are another outlier, with its total farming area occupying almost three times the amount of land as The Boreal Plains, which is the ecozone with the second largest farmland area. The Prairies stretch along southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Before humans started to develop farms on the land, The Prairies were mostly composed of flat