Question

Where is subsistence
farming practiced

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Primitive or Simple Subsistence Farming:

This form of agriculture is widely practised by many tribes of the tropics, especially in Africa, in tropical South and Central America, and in South-East Asia. It is better known as shifting cultivation

Shifting cultivation is practised in the tropics by many different peoples and thus has many different names, e.g., milpa in Central America and parts of Africa, conuco in Venezuela, roca in Brazil, masole in Zaiire, ladang in Malaysia, humah in Indonesia, caingin in the Phillippines, tauhgya in Burma, tamrai in Thailand, bewar or poda in India and chena in Sri Lanka.

2. Intensive Subsistence Farming:

This form of agriculture is best developed in and practically confined to the monsoon lands of Asia. It is found in China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the greater part of continental South-East Asia and parts of insular South-East Asia (Java, Luzon, Visayan Inlands, coastal Sumatra and Malaysia)