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Explain the relevance and applicability of Von Thünen’s theory of agricultural location in today’s world.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Models, Theories and Laws

Von Thünen (Der Isolierte Staat, 1826) held soil, climate and skill constant and let distance from a single market do the explaining, so that locational rent LR = Y(m - c) - Ytd determined which crop could outbid the others at each distance, producing six concentric rings.

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