Question

Commercial grain farming in a type of which farming

Answer 1

Answer:

the grain farming is a agriculture farming

Answer 2

Answer:

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This farming is done merely to meet

farmer’s family. Generally, low level conventional methods and. equipments and are used to produce on small output.

Subsistence farming can also be classified as:

1)Intensive Subsistence agriculture

Simple tools and huge labour are used by a farmer to cultivate a small plot of land. More than one crop are tos favourable climatic conditions, like large number of days with sunshine and fertile soils. Rice is the main crop follwed by wheat, maize, pulses and oilseeds. This farming is prevalent in the thickly populated areas of the monsoon of South, South-East and East Asia.

2)Primitive Subsistence Agriculture

It includes shifting cultivation and nomadic herding

Shifting Cultivation

This cultivation is practised in the thickly forested areas of Amazon basin, tropical Africa, parts of South-East Asia and North-East India. These are the areas of heavy rainfall and quick regeneration of vegetation. A plot of land is cleared by felling the trees and burning them. The ashes are then mixed with the soil and crops like maize, yam, potatoes and cassava are grown

When the soil loses its fertility, the land is abandoned and the cultivator moves to a new land. Shifting cultivation is known by different names in different parts of the world viz. Jnumming in North-East India, Milpa in Mexico, Roca in Brazil and Ladang in Malaysia. . This is a class of primitive subsistence agriculture. This cultivation is also known as slash and burn agriculture as the vegetation of a piece of land is cleared by burning and cutting down the trees.

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AGRICULTURE

commercial Farming it is the practice in which crops are grown exclusively for commercial purpose i.e. for sale in the market. It includes path growing crops in a large area with a large amount of capital and rearing of animals for sale in market. The work mostly done by machines and a small proportion of man labour is used.

Commercial farming includes:

mixed Farming In this type of farming, crops are raised and the livestock are kept in farm to have animal products. The land is used

for growing food and fodder crops and rearing of animals livestock. It is practised in Europe, Eastern USA, Argentina,

South-East Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Commercial Grain Farming In this farming, crops are grown for commercial purpose. The areas are sparsely populated with large farm spreading

over hundreds of hectares.

Plantation This is a type of commercial farming where single crop of tea, coffee, sugarcane, cashew, rubber, banana or cotton are

grown. Large amount of labour and capital are required. The produce is processed in the farm itself in nearby factories Major plantations are found in the tropical regions of the world. Rubber in Malaysia, coffee in Brazil etc are some examples.