GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -When farmers cultivate crops only for self-consumption and not to sell in the market, this type of farming is known as Subsistence Farming. It can be classified into two types-Primitive subsistence farming and Intensive subsistence farming.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.

Detailed explanation-4: -The type of agriculture that is practised for the domestic consumption of the farmers is called subsistence agriculture. Plantation and commercial agriculture are mostly aimed at market consumption.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shifting cultivation: In this primitive method, farmers clear the cultivated land, after harvesting the crops and burn the land. Nomadic herding: This kind of farming method involves herders and farmers travelling from place to place with their flocks of animals.