Distinguish between the followings.

Subsistence farming and intensive farming.

Subsistence Farming

Intensive Farming

(i)This type of farming is practised to meet the needs of the farmer’s family.

(ii)Traditionally, low levels of technology and household labour are used to produce on small output.

(i)In intensive subsistence agriculture the farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labour.

(ii)Intensive subsistence agriculture is prevalent in the thickly populated areas of the monsoon regions of south, southeast and east Asia.