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Write notes on types of agriculture.

Answer» At present in different parts of India.Primitive Subsistence Farming:This type of farming is still practiced in few pockets of India\tThe help of primitive tools like hoe dao and digging sticks, and family /community labour.\tThis type of farming depends upon monsoon, natural fertility of the soil and suitability of other environmental conditions to the crops grown.\tIt is ‘salsh and burn’ agriculture.\tThe soil fertility decreases.\tThe farmers shift and clear a fresh patch of land for cultivation.Intensive Subsistence Farming:\tThis type of farming is practiced is areas of high population pressure on land .\tIt is labour intensive farming.\tThe biological inputs and irrigation are used for obtaining higher production.\tThere is enormous pressure on agriculture land.Commercial Farming:\tThis type of farming is the use of higher doses of modern inputs.\tThe degree of commercialization of agriculture various from one region to another.\tA single crop s grown on a large area.\tThe help of migrant labourers.\tThe produces is used as raw material in respective industries.
Agriculture in India :Agriculture is the science of cultivating the soil, harvesting crops, and raising livestock and also as the science or art of the production of plants and animals useful to man and in varying degrees the preparation of such products for man’s use and their disposal.Cropping Seasons in India :Kharif Crops of India:• Sown in summers between May and July, and harvested after the rains, in September and October.•\xa0Eg:\xa0Rice, Jowar, Bajra, Maize, Cotton, Jute, Sugarcane, Tobacco, Groundnut, Pulses, etc.Rabi Crops of India•\xa0Sown at the beginning of winter and harvested before the onset of the summer season, between Feb and April.•\xa0Eg:\xa0Wheat, barley, oil seeds, gram, potatoes, etc.Zayad Crops• They are raised between April and June.•\xa0E.g. :\xa0Melon, watermelon, cucumber, toris, leafy and other vegetables.


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