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Write a note on the relevance of Von Thünen’s agricultural location theory in the present context.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Models, Theories and Laws

Von Thünen's Isolated State (1826) argued that with soil, climate and skill held constant, distance from the market alone determines land use, because locational rent — LR = Y(m - c) - Ytd — falls away from the market at a rate that differs for every crop.

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