Question

Establish the difference between commercial farming and subsistence

farming with the help of a suitable example.​

Answer 1

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Subsistence farming:

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.

Commercial farming:

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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.

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Answer 2

Answer:

. Commercial Farming

  i. Use of higher doses of modern inputs like HYV seeds, fertilizers, etc. 

ii. Commercialization of agriculture varies from region to another

  iii. Plantation is also a type of commercial farming  iv. Use of well-developed network of transport and communication 

v. High productivity for commercial purpose 

Subsistence Farming 

i. Is practiced on small patches of land

  ii. Labour intensive farming 

iii. Use of primitive tools 

iv. Dependent on Monsoons

  v. Called as ‘Slash and burn’ agriculture.