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Land-use In Wales
Wales has a surface area of 20,779 km2 or 2,077,900 ha. It has a border with England to the east, and is bounded by the Irish Sea to the north and west, and by the Bristol Channel to the south. It has an oceanic temperate climate which is markedly influenced by the North Atlantic Current carrying warm water from tropical latitudes. As a result, it has a much milder climate than most places in the world at similar latitudes. Altitudes range from sea-level to 1085 m on the Snowdon Massif. The ways in which land is used in Wales reflect conditions of climate, geology and topography, modified by long traditions of land management. Sheep-grazed pasture predominates in all of the lowland zone, with arable fields mainly confined to the east of the country, although specialised early potato enterprises are favoured by the mild climate of the western peninsulas of Llŷn and Pembrokeshire. Some parts, like the Vale of Tywi and the coastal plain of Ceredigion are famed for dairy farming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasture And Mountain Land In The Brecon Beacons
Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or Domestic pig, swine. The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs (non-grass herbaceous plants). Pasture is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is ungrazed or used for grazing only after being mowing, mown to make hay for animal fodder. Pasture in a wider sense additionally includes rangelands, other unenclosed pastoralism, pastoral systems, and land types used by wild animals for grazing or browsing (predation), browsing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are distinguished from rangelands by being managed through more intensive agricultural practices of sowing, seeding, irrigation, and the use of fertilizers, while rangelands grow primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
