Asturian agriculture has traditionally had a collective orientation, and the extensive pastures in the mountains were communal until the early 20th century.
Wheat, barley, rape, sugar beets, fodder crops, peas, apples, butter, and cheese are the principal agricultural products, while cattle raising is important on the extensive pastures of the Ore Mountains.
The player can expand extensive pasture by deforestation or intensify existing pasture.
The horses are not corralled or stabled overnight and are left to graze on the centre's extensive pastures.
Conventional cattle ranching in Latin America has been based mostly on extensive pasture monocultures planted with minimum tree cover.
These trends are increasing pressure on extensive pastures and rangelands, impacting both wildlife management and pastoralism, in high-income as well as low-income countries.
Low OCs areas are often either located in the steep slope areas of the upper watershed or in the valleys, where extensive pasture areas dominate.
Extensive pastures still function today in the production of a range of quality foods (Boyazoglu and Morand-Fehr 2001) and in providing a spectrum of environmental services.
Four categories of historical land-use were identified: old and dominant pasture cover on small properties, recent deforestation and dominance of secondary growth, old extensive pastures and large forest remnants and, recent deforestation, pasture and large forest remnants.
However, the actual OCs per hectare in many sub-watersheds are likely to be much lower, especially if land close to rivers and headwaters is covered by extensive pastures.
