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What is agriculture?


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  • Age-old economic activity in our country is known as Agriculture.
  • The primary activity which produces almost all the food consumed by us is known as Agriculture.
  • The farmers shift and clear a fresh patch of land for cultivation, when the soil fertility decreases.
  • The fertility of the soil gets replenished naturally through this type of shifting cultivation.
  • As the farmer does not use other modern inputs or fertilisers land productivity in this type of agriculture is low.
  • Apart from food grains that are produced by agriculture, it also produces raw materials that are used in various industries.
  • With the help of family/community labour, and primitive tools like digging sticks, dao, hoe; Primitive subsistence agriculture is practised on small patches of land.
  • It is slash and burn agriculture.
  • This type of farming depends upon natural fertility of the soil, monsoon, and other environmental conditions needed for the growth of the crops.
  • Cereals and other food crops are grown by the farmers to sustain their family, this is done after clearing a patch of land.
  • It is known by different names in different parts of the country.
  • Depending upon socio-cultural practices, technological know-how and characteristics of the physical environment, cultivation methods have changed significantly in India.
  • Farming varies from subsistence to commercial type.

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