USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -When farmers cultivate crops only for self-consumption and not to sell in the market, this type of farming is known as Subsistence Farming. It can be classified into two types-Primitive subsistence farming and Intensive subsistence farming.

Detailed explanation-2: -Subsistence farming is the most widely used agricultural method in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the majority of the rural poor depend on their land for survival. With the land as their livelihood, people are able to fray the costs of transportation, rent, and food, as well as the cost of urban living.

Detailed explanation-3: -Subsistence agriculture is still practiced in certain parts of the country due to following reasons: i Small farmers have smaller landholdings which are uneconomical. ii Poor farmers don’t have expensive fertilizers and high yielding varieties of seeds.

Detailed explanation-4: -In India, the farmers of West Bengal, Kerala, the coastal Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu provide a good example of intensive subsistence wet paddy agriculture .