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Differentiate between commercial farming and primitive subsistance farming.
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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 Commercial 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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Dear student,
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 | Commercial 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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