Indian agriculture is termed to be an Intensive Subsistence Farming type What are the characteristic...........

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Indian agriculture is termed to be an Intensive Subsistence Farming type. What are the

characteristic that has made Indian agriculture to be categorized into that type?

1) Very high population density.

2) Labour intensive farming.

3) Lower yield of production in terms of per capita labour force.

4) Very small and fragmented land holdings.

5) Usage of farm machinery.

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Explanation:

Land holdings are very small due to inheritance law prevalent in the country and high
population mounts pressure on the land holdings to be utilized in an intensive way so as to
cater the demand for food from huge population. Farmers work with the help of family
labour and use of machinery is limited and most of the agricultural operations are done by
manual labour. Farm yard manure is used to maintain the fertility of the soil. In this type of
agriculture, the yield per unit area is high but per labour productivity is low.