Write notes on types of agriculture.

At present in different parts of India.

Primitive Subsistence Farming:

This type of farming is still practiced in few pockets of India

1. The help of primitive tools like hoe dao and digging sticks, and family /community labour.
2. This type of farming depends upon monsoon, natural fertility of the soil and suitability of other environmental conditions to the crops grown.
3. It is ‘salsh and burn’ agriculture.
4. The soil fertility decreases.
5. The farmers shift and clear a fresh patch of land for cultivation.

Intensive Subsistence Farming:

1. This type of farming is practiced is areas of high population pressure on land .
2. It is labour intensive farming.
3. The biological inputs and irrigation are used for obtaining higher production.
4. There is enormous pressure on agriculture land.

Commercial Farming:

1. This type of farming is the use of higher doses of modern inputs.
2. The degree of commercialization of agriculture various from one region to another.
3. A single crop s grown on a large area.
4. The help of migrant labourers.
5. The 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. • Eg: Rice, Jowar, Bajra, Maize, Cotton, Jute, Sugarcane, Tobacco, Groundnut, Pulses, etc. Rabi Crops of India • Sown at the beginning of winter and harvested before the onset of the summer season, between Feb and April. • Eg: Wheat, barley, oil seeds, gram, potatoes, etc. Zayad Crops •  They are raised between April and June. • E.g. : Melon, watermelon, cucumber, toris, leafy and other vegetables.