Question

Difference between commercial and subsistence farming 10th

Answer 1

In subsistence agriculture, small-scale farming is primarily grown for consumption by the farmer and their family. Sometimes if there is a surplus of food it might be sold, but that is not common. In commercial agriculture, the primary objective is to make a profit.

Answer 2

Three differences between primitive subsistence farming and intensive subsistence farming:

◆ Primitive subsistence farming.

● This type of farming is still practised in the small pockets of the country.

● Primitive subsistence farming include the use of primitive goods such as hoe, digging sticks, etc.

● These are cultivated mainly by small farmers by using this primitive tools.

● the outcome of this type of farming is mainly in small amount

● slash and Burn agriculture is another type in this

● In slash and Burn agriculture the farmer clears a patch of land and burns it ,later the ash is mixed with the soil and new crops are grown

◆ Intensive subsistence farming

● this type of farming is practised in the areas where there is a large pressure on the land

● farmers uses large number of inputs so as to get maximum outputs from their limited land .

● though the right inheritance has rendered the land uneconomical farmers uses high doses of input in this limited land

◆ commercial farming

● this type of farming is characterized by the use of large amount of inputs such as h y v seeds, chemical fertilizers etc.

● This includes large amount of labour .

● This type of farming is having large amount of output also.

●for example , rice is a commercial