Question

State some characteristics of Primitive Subsistence Farming.

Answer 1

Answer:

Primitive subsistence farming is still practised in a few pockets of India. Primitive subsistence farming is known by different names in different parts of India.

• Primitive subsistence farming uses community or family labour.
• Primitive subsistence farming makes use of primitive tools like digging sticks, dao, and hoe.
• Primitive subsistence farming is practised on small patches of land.
• Primitive subsistence farming depends upon different environmental conditions, natural fertility of the soil, and the monsoon.
• Primitive subsistence farming is slash and burn agriculture.
• To sustain their families, the farmers produce food crops and cereals by clearing a patch of land.
• Farmers clear and shift the land for cultivation when the soil fertility reduces.
• Primitive subsistence farming allows the soil to replenish itself through natural processes.
• In Primitive subsistence farming, the productivity of land is low as the farmers do not utilise modern inputs or fertilisers.