Course Outline

The Course outline for the intermediate commercial geography course is as follows.

World

Pakistan

Part I Primary activities Fishing Hunting Lumbering Agricultural activities Advent of agricultural activities Animal husbandry Farming – substance Industries and handicrafts Skills and factors of manufacturing Types and products Iron and steel, textiles, fertilizers Population growth – its global distribution, trends, and its effect on various commercial activities Growth world wide Distribution Trends and effects on commerce Orientation of commercial activities and their modern trends Choices of different countries Interrelationship of choices and commercial activities Impact of the latest technology on the existing commercial activities and the resultant trends Part II   Agricultural resources with special emphasis on food resources and their rate of consumption Wheat, rice, sugar cane, tea, edible oils Cotton, rubber and wool Commodity flow and consumption   Mineral resources and their reserve estimates Iron-ore Gold Uranium Energy resources and their applications Coal Electricity/thermal/hydroelectric/nuclear Natural oil and gas   Human resources and their distribution Types according to various occupations Utilization-optimum and under utilization Effects on socio-economic conditions

Location and physical environment Geographical and physical features Climate and natural vegetation Soil and irrigation   Resources and their exploitation Agricultural commodities – wheat, rice, maize, sugar-cane, cotton, tobacco Power – electricity, nuclear, solar energy and bio-gas   Population Its involvement and options for various commercial activities and its impact on national, regional and international trade. Distribution and occupation Migration-immigration and emigration Influences upon nations, regional and international trade   Logistics for transfer of various resources Roads Railways Airways and water ways   Priorities and identity of commercial needs of Pakistan Food autarky Technology it’s spread and application in various fields of life Perspective needs and their fulfillment, by adding facilities like augmenting the existing irrigation systems power resources etc.

 

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