What is subsistence and intensive farming?
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What is subsistence and intensive farming?
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What is subsistence and intensive farming?
John Wick
Subsistence farming is growing food for your own and your family’s direct consumption. Like a backyard vegetable garden, but with fruit, starch crops, and animals as well.
Intensive agriculture is anything that really works the land hard. The inputs cost money, so it is generally only done for profit. Intensive livestock farming is stuff like feedlot cattle, most piggeries, indoor hens (battery or barn), and even most ‘free range’ hens – anything where the feed is grown elsewhere and brought to the animals because the land they are being kept on isn’t big enough to grow all of their food in the paddock and let them graze it for themselves.
Intensive plant farming is not as clearly defined, but generally market gardens would be intensive, and a few thousand acres of wheat is extensive.
Andrew Pel
Subsistence farming is practiced to meet the needs of the farmer’s family. Traditionally, low levels of technology and household labor are used to produce on small output. Subsistence farming can be further classified as intensive subsistence and primitive subsistence farming.
In intensive subsistence agriculture, the farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labor. The climate with a large number of days with sunshine and fertile soils permit growing of more than one crop annually on the same plot. Rice is the main crop. Other crops include wheat, maize, pulses, and oilseeds.
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Intensive Farming
Use of fertilizers and pesticides
Use of irrigation
Very good variety of seeds
Modern farming techniques
The yield per hectare is high and usually made for profit
Subsistence Farming
No fertilizers or pesticides
No irrigation
Seeds of poor quality
No modern farming techniques
Yield per hectare is much less and just enough to be consumed by that particular family
aron
Intensive farming or intensive agriculture is a kind of agriculture where a lot of capital and labour are used to increase the yield that can be obtained per area. The use of large amounts of pesticides for crops, and for medication for animal stocks is common. In a lot of part of India or world intensive farming had been started after Green Revolution and because of that people shift from organic farming to chemical farming which causes alot of damage to the soil , water, air, humans and even mother earth. Because some of the chemical were non biodegradable which causes a lot of harm to every one. Like Punjab and Haryana used to produce highest amount of wheat and maize for the country but now days soil quality of both state is getting worst and lot of water pump has been marked red because of infected water
Subsistence agriculture is a self-sufficiency farming system in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families. The output is mostly for local requirements with little or no surplus trade. A lot of small farmers who are also govt employees they do this type of farming so they could just provide a good quality organic food to their families and children. Because chemical substances causes a lot of damage to the human body and mind