HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Subsistence farming is practised to meet the needs of the farmer’s family. Traditionally, low levels of technology and household labour are used to produce on small output. Subsistence farming can be further classified as intensive subsistence farming and primitive subsistence farming.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. Q.

Detailed explanation-3: -Intensive subsistence farming is practised in densely populated regions of the world, mainly in south and south east Asia including China, Japan and India. In areas with low population density, extensive farming is practised.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shifting cultivation is a type/ example of subsistence farming in which the farmers clear a patch of forest land by cutting and burning trees and then crops are grown. This type of farming is practiced to meet the needs of the farmer’s family.