In general, then, economic geographers expect farmers to use their land as productively as possible in order to produce the highest rent. Economic geographers call this difference, or net return, location (or land) rent. Farmers' net returns are the difference between the amount they receive when they sell their crops and the costs they incur to grow, harvest, and get their crops to market. This is how economic geographers explain which crop farmers choose to grow in a particular place. In other words, if they have a choice between several alternative actions, they will choose to pursue the one that generates the greatest payoff or economic return. One of the assumptions frequently made by economists is that decision-makers choose to do what is best for them economically.
In most regions, however, farmers can grow a variety of crops, and in those circumstances, how do they decide whether to grow greenhouse tomatoes or wheat? For example, citrus fruits are grown in frost-free regions because a hard freeze would destroy the crop and maybe even the fruit trees. Why are some crops grown in some locations but not others? How do farmers decide which crops to plant? Some of these decisions are based on environmental factors. Different crops represent different agricultural land uses. One of the first land-use patterns that geographers studied is the pattern of crops across an agricultural landscape. In other words, all regions are not equal, and the spatial arrangement of economic activities is not random it is the result of decisions made by individuals, small businesses, multinational corporations, and governments. If geographers can find reasons why some activities are found in some places but not others, this implies that some regions are more advantageous than others for particular activities. Not surprisingly, economic geographers use economic reasons to explain the location of economic activities.
One of economic geography's primary goals is to explain or make sense of the land-use patterns we see on Earth's surface.
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