Question

Differentiate between subsistence and commercial farming.

Answer 1

Subsistence farming:

(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.



Commercial farming:

(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

Hi friend,

Your answer:

i) Commercial farming is mainly practised in developed countries whereas subsistence farming in less developed or developing countries.

ii) Commercial farming is cultivated for profits whereas subsistence farming is for the consumption of the farmer and his/her family.

iii) Commercial farms are very large while that of the subsistence farming are quite small.

iv) Commercial farming is not dependent much on man power or animal power whereas subsistence farming is dependent.

v) In commercial farming, there are proper irrigation facilities whereas subsistence farming is generally dependent upon the monsoon.

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