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- Hello,everyone, I am Ahalya, and I am a farmer and I will be telling you about subsistence agriculture and its different types today.
- The type of agriculture that is practiced for the domestic consumption of the farmers is called subsistence agriculture. They may sell or exchange their product among the local community, but no commercial sale is involved. Subsistence agriculture can be classified into types- primitive subsistence agriculture and nomadic herding and intensive subsistence agriculture
- Shifting agriculture is a primitive method of farming practiced by tribals living in the dense tropical forests of the Congo Basin, Amazon Basin, Central America, south-east Asia, and north-east India, They clear a patch of forested land by cutting and burning the trees and bushes. That is why it is also known as slash and burn agriculture. Cultivation is done on this cleared land with very primitive tools like digging sticks and hoes. Mostly tuber crops like tapioca, cassava, manioc and yams are grown, together with some maize, millets, beans or bananas.
- After three or four years, the soil gets leached or covered by weeds and it becomes infertile. The people then shift to another part of the forest where they clear a fresh patch of land. Shifiting culitivation leads to deforestation and soil erosion. Therefore,many countires including India have banned this activity .
- Nomadic herding is practiced by nomadic people who graze their animals on natural pastures. The herders move from one place to another in search of fodder and water supply. They raise animals like cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and yaks depending on the natural environment of the area. Nomadic herding is confined to sparsely populated parts of the world where the natural vegetation is mainly grass.
- It is practised in parts of West and Central Asia, northern Eurasia, East and Southwest Africa and the Sahara Deser. However, the change to a settled lifestyle has reduced the importance of nomadic heding these days. The Kirghiz and the kazakhs of Central Asia, the Bedouins and the Tuaregs of the Sarah Desert, the Masais of East Africa and the Gaddis and Bakarwals of the Himalayan region in India are some important animal herders
- Farmers make optimum utilisation of the land and grow two or three crops annually with the help of irrigation, high yeilding varieties of seeds, natural manures and chemical fetilisers. The major crops grown by this method are rice, wheat, millets, oilseeds, cotton and sugarcane.
- Intensive subsistence agriculture is practiced in densely populated regions of the world, mainly south and south-east Asia, including China, Japan and India. The Land Holdings are usually small and farming is very intensive, using a large amount of human labour Simple tools are used and farm machines are rare
- Thank you for joining me today, hope you have enjoyed and learnt a bit too! Hope to see you soon, and feel welcome to drop by to my farm any day!!
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