HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -❖ The term ‘intensive’ implies that farmers in this region must expend a large amount of effort to produce the maximum feasible yield from a given parcel of land and ‘subsistence’ means that the crops grown are consumed by the farmers and his family.

Detailed explanation-2: -Intensive Subsistence Farming: This type of farming is practised in areas of high population pressure on land. It is labour-intensive farming, where high doses of biochemical inputs and irrigation are used for obtaining higher production.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rice is the main crop. Other crops include wheat, maize, pulses and oilseeds. Intensive subsistence agriculture is prevalent in the thickly populated areas of the monsoon regions of south, southeast and east Asia. Primitive subsistence agriculture includes shifting cultivation and nomadic herding.

Detailed explanation-4: -Intensive subsistence farming is also called ‘slash and burn’ agriculture.