Question

Why a Indian agriculture is known as subsistence agriculture?

Answer 1

Answer:

Subsistance means own consumption generally, in India farmers mostly farming for their own, not for sale.

The entire crops are consumed by their families not sold in markets.

This type of agriculture is seen in most parts of India.

Subsistence agriculture consists of very few landforms and getting low yield. Due to the lack of awareness about the soil, climatic conditions, proper equipment, and technology most farmers doing this substance farming.

Answer 2

EXPLANATION:

• Farming systems have been utilized strategically in those locations that are mostly suitable.  

• Few of the ‘farming systems’ that majorly contribute to the Indian agriculture are organic farming, subsistence farming, and ‘industrial farming’.  

• Shifting cultivation is a kind of subsistence farming where a land plot can be cultivated for several years until the crop yield deteriorates because of soil exhaustion and the effects of weeds and pests.  

• Dairy farming is basically a kind of subsistence ‘farming system in India’.