Question

what do you mean by subsistence farming
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Answer 1

Answer:

Subsistence farming, form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer’s family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade. Preindustrial agricultural peoples throughout the world have traditionally practiced subsistence farming.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

Subsistence farming, form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer's family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade. Preindustrial agricultural peoples throughout the world have traditionally practiced subsistence farming. Subsistence farming, form of farming in which nearly all of the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and the farmer's family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade. Preindustrial agricultural peoples throughout the world have traditionally practiced subsistence farming.

Explanation:

farming or a system of farming that provides all or almost all the goods required by the farm family usually without any significant surplus for sale

2: farming or a system of farming that produces a minimum and often inadequate return to the farmer

— called also subsistence agriculture

The main features of Subsistence Farming are as follows:

In subsistence farming, landholdings tend to be small and scattered.

The farmers tend to use traditional methods of agriculture.

The output is not very high and it is consumed within the family.

One of the main advantages of subsistence farming is that it provides ready food for the family. In most rural families for example, the main source food is the individual farms of the folks. There, the basic staples are available for use which includes such basic supplies as maize, cassava, plantain, coco yam etc.

Farming for basic needs. crop farming. truck farming.

Subsistence farming may also mean shifting farming or nomadic herding (see nomadic people). Examples: A family has only one cow to give milk only for that family. A farmer grows only enough wheat to make bread for his or her family.