Question

Name some crops grown in the following type of farming:

1) Primitive subsistence farming

2) Intensive subsistence farming.

Answer 1

1. The main crops are starchy foods such as tapioca, cassava or cassava, yams, corn or maize, millet, mountain rice, beans, and bananas.

2. There are two types of intensive subsistence agriculture. One is dominated by wet paddy and the other is dominated by crops other than paddy, e.g., wheat, pulses, maize, millets, sorghum, kaoling, soya beans, tubers, and vegetables.