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“Under what situations Von Thunen’s model of agricultural location is still rational.” Justify with examples.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Models, Theories and Laws

Johann Heinrich von Thunen (Der Isolierte Staat, 1826) held soil, climate and skill constant and let distance from a single market decide land use through locational rent — LR = Y(m - c) - Ytd — yielding six concentric rings from market gardening and dairy to livestock ranching.

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  • Situations in Which the Model Remains Rational
  • Where perishability converts distance into cost
  • Where one market genuinely dominates the region
  • Where transport infrastructure is weak, and at the frontier
  • Where distance is read as economic distance
  • Where the Logic Fails
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