High Intermediate

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of three semesters (or five quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

This class will define and analyze the factors that determine farm production and its relationship with the ecosystem that surrounds it. The different systems of production that have developed in Chile will also be looked at. This class will also do a description of the resources and factors of production specifically the important animals and vegetables in the national farming activities.

Contents:

1. Agriculture and Farming
a. The ecosystem and its components
-Farming ecosystem: climate, ground, water,
vegetation
-Styles of Agriculture
b. Importance of farming production
-National and international situations
-Production zones of the country

2. Farm production systems
-extensive
-semi-extensive

3. Post-harvest and the transformation of farming products
-industrialization of products

4. Commercialization
-The selling of farming products
-Products of exportation, markets
-Internal market

Bibliography
Contreras, D.; Gasto, J.; Cosio F. 1986. Ecosistemas
Pastorales de la Zona Mediterranea Arida de Chile. UNESCO-
MAB (335-453)
Giaconi, V. 1990 Produccion de Hortalizas. Editorial
Universitaria.
ODEPA 1992 Panorama Agricola de Chile. Estadisticas.
Gardiazabal, F. y Rosember, G. 1993 “El Chirimoyo”
Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaiso.
Spedding,C.R.W. 1979. Ecologia de los sistemas agricolas.
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