Question

Distinguish between primitive subsistence farming and commercial agriculture.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

subsistence farming

• Subsistence agriculture is practised on small patches of land with the help of primitive tools like dao, hoe and digging sticks.

• Farmerand Lis family produce cereals for themselves and for the local market. It is labour intensive where most of the activities are done by family/community labour

• It is practised in thickly populated areas

• Cereals like wheat, rice, millets are mainly raised.

commercial agriculture.

• Commercial farming is done on large scale with the use of huge doses of modern inputs e.g. HYV seeds, chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides.

• Farmer and Lis family produce cereals for themselves and for the local market. It is labour intensive where most of the activities are done by family/community labour.

• Crops are grown with a view to export them to other countries. It is capital intensive where much of the work is done with the help of machines.

• It is practised in thickly populated areas. • It is practised in sparsely populated areas.

• Cereals like wheat, rice, millets are mainly raised. • Coffee, cotton, sugarcane etc are mainly raised

Answer 2

Answer:

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Intensive farming

There is multiple cropping done in intensive farming

In intensive farming the processing industries are not linked with the farms

The farmers generally grow their produce on small holdings of land generally for their own consumption

Plantation

Plantations are big estates of land which normally specializes in cash crops

The crops grown on plantations are cocoa, sugarcane, coffee, tea, fruits and more kinds of crops

The plantation farming requires large investments and there is commercial farming done in those farms

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