Question

Farmers in India mostly engaged in which type of farming?

• A. Shifting farming
• B. Plantation farming
• C. Dry and wet farming
• D. Intensive subsistence agriculture

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Intensive subsistence agriculture

Farmers in India are mostly engaged in Intensive subsistence agriculture.

The term, ‘intensive subsistence agriculture’ is used to describe a type of agriculture characterised by high output per unit of land and relatively low output per worker. Although the nature of this agriculture has changed and in many areas now it is no more subsistence.

But despite changes, the term ‘intensive subsistence’ is still used today to describe those agricultural systems which are clearly more sophisticated than the primitive agriculture. Sometimes it is also known as ‘monsoon type of agriculture’.