HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
GENERAL AGRICULTURE
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Question
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Both shifting agriculturalists and commercial farmers practice crop rotation, but subsistence farmers ____
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make more use of fertilizers
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do not raise livestock
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are more likely to allow fields to remain fallow
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sell their crops on a global market
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In subsistence farming, it also makes good nutritional sense to grow beans and grain at the same time in different fields. Crop rotation is also used to control pests and diseases that can become established in the soil over time. Plants within the same taxonomic family tend to have similar pests and pathogens.
Detailed explanation-2: -Swidden agriculture, also known as shifting cultivation, refers to a technique of rotational farming in which land is cleared for cultivation (normally by fire) and then left to regenerate after a few years.
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