Question 4 - Past Year Questions - 5 Marks - Chapter 4 Class 10 Geography - Agriculture - Geography

Establish the difference between commercial farming and subsistence farming with the help of a suitable example.

Answer:

Points to remember

COMMERCIAL FARMING  

1. Practiced on the large farms.
2. Use of more modern agricultural inputs
3. Commercialization of agriculture varies
4. Well-established network of transportation and communication
5. primary goal -  high crop  productivity
6. In Haryana , rice is a commercial crop .

SUBSISTENCE FARMING

1. Practiced on small patches of land .
2. Use primitive / traditional tools
3.  Labour-intensive farming .  
4. Productivity  is very  low
5. The primary goal - To  produce food for their own consumption
6. Rice is a subsistence crop in  Odisha .

Answer to be written in the Exam

COMMERCIAL FARMING  

1. Commercial farming is practiced on the large farms.
2. In commercial farming , farmers use more modern agricultural inputs such as High yielding varieties seeds(HYVs seeds), fertilizers, farming tools, etc
3. The commercialization of agriculture varies from region to region.  
4. It is characterized by a well-established network of transportation and communication
5. The primary goal of commercial farming is high crop productivity.
6. For instance, In Haryana , rice is a commercial crop

SUBSISTENCE FARMING

1. Subsistence farming is practiced on small patches of land .
2. Farmers use primitive/traditiona l tool for cultivation.
3. It is a  Labour- intensive farming .  
4. In this type of farming, productivity  is very  low
5. The primary goal  of subsistence farming is that farmers produce crops for their own consumption
6. For instance: Rice is a subsistence crop in  Odisha .