Question

What is subsistence farming? State two features of this of farming.

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.

1) It is practised in areas of high population pressure on land. 2) It is rendered land holding size uneconomically.