The factors to be considered before siting a commercial farmland include:
1. Climatic factors: they include rainfall, temperature, relative
humidity, wind direction, etc. These factors must be favourable to the
plants and/or animals to be raised.
2. Socio-economic factors: these include the availability of labour,
social infrastructures, population of the region and nearness to
market.
3. Edaphic factors: these are soil related factors such as soil
fertility, structure, texture, consistency, porousity, etc. These
factors determines the kind of crop that will grow in the land.
Moreover, farms should not be sited in places that are prone to
flooding, erosion, and other forms of land degradation except they are
been used as control measures.
4. Government policies: some governments have various rules guiding
agricultural practices. These policies should be considered before
siting a farm.
5. Economic factors: these factors are of topmost importance if the
agricultural business will survive. A feasibility study is conducted
to make sure that there will enough returns to sustain the farm.
