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Types of Farming

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  • This type of farming is also called slash and burn agriculture
    Shifting Cultivation
  • In this type of farming, land is cleared by cutting or burning bushes and trees
    Shifting Cultivation
  • This type of farming is mostly practiced in the densely populated countries of the monsoon region
    Intensive Farming
  • For this type of farming cheap and skilled labour and huge capital investment are required.
    Plantation Agriculture
  • This type of farming involves labour from the farmer's family
    Subsistence Farming
  • In this type of farming farms are generally large in size and the investments are high
    Commercial Farming
  • In this type of farming the landholdings are usually large and the farm work is done by machines
    Extensive Farming
  • This type of farming tries to get maxixum output from a small plot of land
    Intensive Farming
  • In this type of farming mostly a single crop of tea, coffee, sugarcane, rubber, banana, spices and cotton is grown
    Plantation Agriculture
  • In this type of farming the farmers try to keep the cost of production as low as possible.
    Commercial Farming
  • This type of farming is practiced in sparsely populated areas
    Extensive Farming
  • In this type of farming all types of manure and a little of chemical fertilizers are used
    Subsistence Farming