Geography
In subsistence agriculture
- the farmer produces food to earn more money
- the farmer grows crop for his own consumption
- the farmer grows food crop to exchange for other amenities
- the farmer practices primitive agriculture
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In India Intensive Commercial farming is practised because
- land holdings are very large
- most of the land is fallow
- due to population pressure which reduces the size of land holdings
- extensive farming is not possible as farmers cannot afford
Organic farming is becoming popular as in this type of farming
- chemical fertilizers are used
- compost is used as fertilizer
- only one crop is grown
- it is expensive
Mixed farming means
- farming of many crops on the same farm
- growing fodder crop along with other crop
- cultivation of crops and livestock rearing on the same farm
- to grow root crops like beet and turnip
Green revolution was first confined to only
- Bihar
- Punjab
- Tamil Nadu
- Gujarat