Question

list the salient features of intensive subsistence farming

Answer 1

(i) Very small holdings: ...

(ii) Farming is very intensive: ...

(iii) Much hand labour is entailed: ...

(iv) Use of animal and plant manures: ...

(v) Dominance of padi and other food crops:

Answer 2

Intensive farming is practised in areas having high population pressure on land.

It is labour-intensive farming where high doses of irrigation and biochemical inputs are utilised for getting higher production.

Multiple cropping is common and high yielding of varieties of crops are grown mainly for commercial purposes.

Wheat, rice and sugarcane are important crops.

Intensive cultivation is common in the Indian sub-contienent, China, Japan and Korea.