Question

Differentiate between commercial and subsistence agriculture

Answer 1

<b>subsistence agriculture:</b>

(i) Farming practices in which the entire crops are consumed by  the farmers and their family. They do not have any surplus to sell in the market.

(ii) Farms are small and fragmented.

(iii) food crops are cultivated mostly are cereals like  rice and wheat along with oil seeds, vegetables and sugarcane.

(iv) Old tools and implements are used by the farmers. There is a total absence of modern equipments like tractors  and farm inputs like chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides.

(iv) Depends on monsoon and there is greater use of manpower.

<b>Commercial agriculture:</b>

(i) In this  Farming practice most of the  goods produced are mainly sold  in  the market for earning money.

(ii) Landholdings are large and cash crops are cultivated to earn money from them.

(iii) Major commercial crops grown in different parts of India are cotton, jute, sugarcane groundnut.

(iii) In this type of  farming, farmers use inputs like irrigation, chemical fertilizers ,insecticides, pesticides and high yielding varieties of seeds better. 

(iv) By the use of modern equipments like tractors e.tc .less  manpower is used .

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Answer 2

commecial farming are those farming in which farmer grow crop for sell in market. it is done for loss and profit . ex= tea maize etc whereas subsistence farming are those farming in which farmer grow crop for domestic use and there family not sell in market.
ex= wheat ,rice