Question

state any three feature of indian agriculture​

Answer 1

Answer:

There are three feature of Indian agreculture

Explanation:

(i) Indian Agriculture is mainly of intensive subsistence type. (ii) It is mainly practised in areas of high population pressure on land. (iii) It is labour intensive farming where high doses of biochemical inputs and irrigation are used for obtaining high yields.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Agriculture is made up of two words –‘Ager’ + ‘culture’. ‘Ager’ means soil and ‘culture’ means cultivation.

Features of Indian Agriculture:

1. Subsistence agriculture: The type of agriculture in India is mostly Subsistence agriculture. In Subsistence agriculture the agricultural produce is for self-consumption only, there is no surplus production to sell in the market.

2. Commercial agriculture: Large-scale commercial agriculture is also practiced in India, such as tea plantation in Assam, coffee in Karnataka, coconut in Kerala, etc. Commercial Agriculture is the agricultural practice where large agricultural produce is sold in the market by the firms for making profits.

Since the land resource in India is limited the pressure of increasing population on agriculture is increasing day by day.

3. Mechanization: After Green Revolution, there has been an increasing trend in the use of machines in farm operations. This has led to the mechanization of Indian agriculture. Punjab, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh, River valleys of Andhra, and Tamil Nadu are major agriculturally mechanized areas in India.

4. Monsoon dependent: Due to lack of irrigation facilities Two-third of Indian agriculture is dependent on monsoon rains.

5. Variety of crops: Due to the presence of different types of topography, diverse soil (like alluvial, red, black cotton soil, etc), and different types of climate, India is blessed with the production of different varieties of crops in different regions. For eg., hilly areas are suitable for tea cultivation, plains for rice cultivation

6. Predominance of food crops: In order to feed a large population and predominance of subsistence agriculture, food crops are mainly grown in order to keep with the food security demands of the huge Indian population.

There are basically three cropping seasonal patterns in India namely Kharif, Rabi, and Zaid.