Plz help me out ,do u know anything about subsistence agriculture?

Question

its for my project

Answer 1

subsistence agriculture is the growth of crops and rearing of animals solely for home consumption and not for sale....

Answer 2

Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficient farming in which farmers grow only enough food to feed the family and to pay taxes or feudal dues. The typical subsistence farm has a range of crops and animals needed by the family to eat during the year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence...

In some countries, it can cause environmental problems

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0804.htm

I'll point you in the right direction -- but it is your homework.

Answer 3

Subsistence farming typically uses few fertilizers and no machines. Instead the farmers may use draft animals which can be fed and raised on the farm. Subsistence farmers often rely on crop rotation, animal manure, and compost to restore the nutrients rather than purchasing expensive synthetic fertilizers.

In areas which are sparsely populated, subsistence agriculture can be sustainable for a long time. In more densely populated areas, subsistence agriculture may deplete the soil of nutrients, and damage the environment. However the traditional agriculture of East Asia, for example the small-holdings of China, has been described as sustainable, using extensive methods of cultivation and despite high population pressure.

One form of subsistence agriculture is shifting cultivation, or swidden (different names in different places), a practice common with rain fed agricultural systems. Farmers typically abandon a given plot when soil fertility wanes and move on to more fertile land, often utilizing slash and burn techniques. A considerable fallow period ensues on the abandoned land. It takes up the least amount of land among the 4 types of cultivation but it is only enough for the town.

Despite what many people are led to believe, this practise is not an inferior practise and is generally far more environmentally viable and sustainable than commercial farming

Subsistence grain-growing agriculture (predominantly wheat and barley) first emerged during the Neolithic Revolution when humans began to settle in the Nile, Euphrates, and Indus River Valleys. It was the dominant mode of production in the world until recently when market-based capitalism became widespread. Subsistence horticulture may have developed earlier in South East Asia and Papua New Guinea.

Subsistence farming continues today in large parts of up-country Africa, and other countries of Asia and South America. Subsistence agriculture had by and large disappeared in Europe by the beginning of World War I, and in North America with the movement of share croppers and tenant farmers out of the American South and Midwest during the 1930s and 1940s.

Answer 4

Those are good definitions, if that is what you need. Subsistence agriculture, in mostly 3rd world countries, is about survival. Its about growing enough food to feed your family, and hopefully have some left over to sell or trade to get a few things that you need but can't grow. Its about having a year of near starvation if you have crops that don't do well, or some animals die from disease. Its about doing the best that you can in the only way that you know how, for yourself and your family.

Answer 5

Subsistence agriculture is where you grow enough food to eat from this harvest to the next, plus enough to spare to pay your taxes, plus generate enough seeds to replant next spring.

As for me, though, I prefer to let nature do as much of the work as possible. All this week I've been eating big piles of boiled milkweed leaves that grow wild in the fields and by the side of the roads up this here mountain. I usually eat a pork chop along with them. And each week I can eat wild stuff is 2% of my year's food budget that I don't have to pay for.

So farmers, you could learn to get a boost from wild stuff if you wanted to. It might give you some additional food security or maybe a little extra spare time.

Books I recommend:

The Forager's Harvest, by Samuel Thayer.

Edible Wild Plants: Eastern/Central North America, by Lee Allen Peterson.

Answer 6

SUBSISTENCE AGRI IS WHERE SOMEONE GROWS ENOUGH TO FEED HIS FAMILY THROUGHOUT THE TEAR WITH ENOUGH LEFT OVER FOR SEED FOR NEXT YEAR.

Answer 7

Subsistence farming is plain and simple--self-sufficient farming, or farming enough for oneself and one's family. It also means you're not farming to sell your crops, but to have just enough to eat.