HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
GENERAL AGRICULTURE
Question
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A large % of the population is directly involved in agriculture
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Less machinery is used
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More extensive use is made of fertilizers
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Crop yields are smaller
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: For profit, commercial farming cultivates crops, whereas subsistence farming cultivates crops for personal consumption. The monsoon is a major factor in subsistence farming. Animals and human labour play a larger role in subsistence farming than in traditional methods.
Detailed explanation-2: -Intensive subsistence farming is practised in regions where there is a lot of pressure on the agricultural land. Commercial farming, on the other hand, is practised in regions where there is relatively less pressure on land. Land holdings are small and are not associated with farms.
Detailed explanation-3: -Intensive farming focuses on investing a lot of resources and labor into small tracts of land in order to increase yield. Extensive agriculture, on the other hand, employs larger tracts of land and lower quantities of labor and resources.
Detailed explanation-4: -Intensive Farming is a farming method that uses higher inputs and advanced agricultural techniques to increase the overall yield. In contrast, Extensive Farming is one in which more and more land is brought under cultivation to increase the output produced.