Differentiate between:
Extensive and intensive agriculture.

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Solution

Cultivation methods change significantly based upon the characteristics of physical environment, technological know-how and socio-cultural practices. Farming varies from subsistence to commercial type. Primitive Subsistence Farming and Intensive Subsistence Farming are two forms of farming.

Primitive Subsistence Farming Intensive Subsistence Farming

practiced in few pockets of India practised in areas of high population pressure on land

primitive tools like hoe, dao and digging sticks, and modern machineries

family/community labour labour intensive farming

depends upon monsoon, natural fertility of the soil and suitability of other environmental conditions Artificial irrigation

does not use fertilizers or other modern inputs. where high doses of biochemical inputs and irrigation are used for obtaining higher production. Higher doses of modern inputs, e.g. high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides

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