General Knowledge - Indian Geography - Discussion

Like most farmers in Africa, this Cameroonian man cultivates at the subsistence level.

Subsistence agriculture is a self-sufficiency farming system in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their entire families. The output is mostly for local requirements with little or no surplus trade. The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to feed and clothe themselves during the year. Planting decisions are made principally with an eye toward what the family will need during the coming year, and secondarily toward market prices. Tony Waters writes: "Subsistence peasants are people who grow what they eat, build their own houses, and live without regularly making purchases in the marketplace. ".

As per Indian government data, India has only 35 % land is irrigated that is Ganga River basin and Yamuna and some part of Krishna and Kaveri and Godavari Rivers area has irrigated.

And the commercial agriculture means sugar cotton etc that are expecting and they require irrigated land or 100-150 cm rainfall and a high temperature of avg 30°c and so it's not possible at all area. And extensive agriculture needs high technology like China Indian agriculture lack of modern technology and plantation agriculture means coconut plant, chikku plant, apple plant etc these plants required special geographic location and climate so subsistence agriculture means agriculture for life requirement of India. So Indian agriculture is subsistence.

"Subsistence agriculture" as the word subsistence itself explains, it is a pattern of agriculture which is done merely for livelihood and to feed the family.

There is not any concept of development involved entire family remain involved in agriculture activity over a small piece of land which ultimately leads to under employment.

(1) Subsistence agriculture is that practice of farming in which the farmer and his family raise crops for home consumption.

(2) This is practiced on small farms.

(3) This is labour intensive.

(4) Old technology and old implements are used. For example: The production of wheat in some parts of India.

Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families.

The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to feed and clothe themselves during the year.

It a slash and burn cultivation which is known as intensive subsistence cultivation and it is followed by the nomadic like Bhotiyas Gujjars of Himalayas, it is practiced in central Asia, China, India, Western Africa etc.

In Subsistence farming, output is just enough for fulfilling food need of farmer and his family. In India small size of land with much of the farmers is main cause of subsistence farming.

Plantation agriculture is most predominant agriculture as we have to balance nutritional cycle which begins with trees and end on human lives. So correct answer is option C.

Farmers don't wish to be farmers anymore what they earn from subsistence farming is not enough due to increased inflation their plight is miserable.

Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families.