Which type of farming is practiced in areas of high population pressure on land?
- A.Extensive subsistence farming
- B.Commercial farming
- C.Primitive subsistence farming
- D.Intensive subsistence farming
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Explanation
The correct answer is D, intensive subsistence farming. Where many people depend on a limited area of land, as in the Ganga plain of Uttar Pradesh, holdings are small, the farmer uses a great deal of family labour and manure, irrigation is applied wherever possible and two or three crops are taken from the same field each year; this is intensive subsistence farming. Option A, extensive subsistence farming, works large areas with little labour per hectare and belongs to thinly peopled regions. Option B, commercial farming, is carried on for sale with hired labour and bought inputs, as on a plantation. Option C, primitive subsistence farming, means shifting cultivation with the hoe and the digging stick, practised by tribal communities on forest patches. The clue in such questions is always the phrase about population pressure.
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