Question

differentiate between intensive subsistence farming and commercial farming (3marks)​

Answer 1

Answer:

INTENSIVE:

1. It is practiced in areas of high population

pressure on land.

2. It is labour-intensive farming, where high

doses of biochemical inputs and irrigation are

used for obtaining higher production.

3. The right of inheritance has led to the

division of land among successive generations

rendering the land-holding size uneconomical.

4. The farmers continue to take maximum

output from the limited land in the absence of

alternative source of livelihood putting

enormous pressure on agricultural land.

COMMERCIAL:

1. The main characteristic of this type of

farming is the use of higher doses of modern

inputs, e.g. high yielding variety (HYV) seeds,

chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides

in order to obtain higher productivity.

2. It is also called plantation farming where a

single crop is grown on a large area.

3. Plantations have an interface of agriculture

and industry. They cover large tracts of land,

using capital intensive inputs, with the help of

migrant laborers.

4. Since the production is mainly for markets

there is a need for a well-developed network of

transport and communication connecting the

plantation areas, processing industries and the

markets.

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Answer 2

Answer:

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