What are the charecteristics of commercial farming?
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Explanation:
Characteristics of commercial farming are:
Farmer use of higher doses of modern inputs, e.g. high yielding variety (HYV)
seeds, chemical fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides.
Farmer obtain higher productivity from land due to high doses of inputs.
In this type of farming crops are produced for sale.
It requires a lot of capital.
Plantations also refers to commercial farming.
1. the main characteristics of commercial farming is the use of high doses of modern inputs like high yielding varieties(HYV) of seeds chemical fertilizers insecticides and pesticides in order to obtain higher productivity.
2. the degree of commercial of agriculture varies from one religion to another, for example rice is a commercial crop of Punjab and Haryana but in Odisha it is a subsistence crop.
3.plantation is also a type of commercial farming where a single crop is grown on a large area.
4. plantations cover large areas using capital intensive inputs with the help of migrant labourers.
5. in India tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana are important plantation crops.