Define subsistence, intensive and plantation farming and their main characteristics.
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- Subsistence farming, form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer's family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade. Preindustrial agricultural peoples throughout the world have traditionally practiced subsistence farming.
- Features of subsistence farming are as follows:
- Small-holdings: It is characterised by small and scattered land holdings and use of primitive tools.
- The farmers do not use fertiliser and high yielding variety of seeds as they are poor.
2. Intensive farming : It is a type of farming in which the agricultural production is increased by using scientific methods and better agricultural inputs. Features : (i) HYV seeds and modern inputs are used to increase the production. (ii) More than one crop is cultivated during a year.
The main characteristics of the intensive subsistence agriculture are as follows:
(i) Very small holdings:
(ii) Farming is very intensive:
(iii) Much hand labour is entailed:
(iv) Use of animal and plant manures:
(v) Dominance of padi and other food crops:
3. A plantation is the large-scale farmland meant for farming mainly cash crops for international market. Characteristics of plantation farming are: In plantation farming single crops of tea, sugarcane, coffee, rubber, cotton and bananas are grown on large fields. Large labour force and capital is required in plantations
(i) It is a single crop farming practised on a large area. (ii) Crops are mainly grown for the market.
(iii) It is both labour intensive and capital intensive.
(iv) It has an interface of agriculture and Industry.
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