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Discuss the relevance of Von Thünen’s model on agricultural location in the contemporary context.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Models, Theories and Laws

Johann Heinrich von Thünen's Der Isolierte Staat (1826), built on the detailed cost accounts (1810–1815) of his own Mecklenburg estate of Tellow, was the first model to explain agricultural land use in purely economic terms rather than by soil and climate.

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