HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
GENERAL AGRICULTURE
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Question
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What is Subsistence Farming?
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Farming that focuses on feeding the family and making money
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Farming that uses environment friendly techniques
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Farming where the farmer produces food to live off of
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Farming that grows organic food
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.
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