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Advantages of small-scale farming or intensive subsistence farming

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  Intensive subsistence farming is the growing of crops and rearing of animals on small scale for subsistence purpose for example growing cereal crops like cassava and beans for domestic consumption. it is mostly practised in less developed countries like Zambia and some parts of Asia. The following are advantages of small scale farming or intensive subsistence agriculture source of employment opportunities leading to high standard of living development of infrastructure that is rural feeder roads source of government revenue through taxation use of family labour which is cheap use of small piece of land leads to promotion of economic diversification reducing the problem of over depending on on economic sector it need low capital and low skills to manage provide market for industrial products e.g fertilisers, pesticides and hoes environmental protection by providing habitats for plant and animal species development of tourism sector for example rice growing in India and china sourc...

10 CHARACTERISTICS OF SMALL-SCALE AGRICULTURE

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  what is agriculture? agriculture means the human activity that deals with crop cultivation (also called arable farming) and animal rearing or keeping (also known as pastoral farming or livestock husbandry) it is primary human activity that helps us to meet various needs such as food and raw materials what is small scale agriculture? Small-scale agriculture is the type of agriculture that is practiced on relatively small plots of land. In small-scale agriculture, the land does not exceed four hectares. Small-scale agriculture is practiced for both subsistence and commercial purposes. Characteristics of small-scale agriculture at subsistence level Most of the labour is provided by family members and is manual in nature. due to small land the family members provide adequate manpower needed to till, weed and harvest crops from the farm. there is no need to hire extra labour outside the family Farmers use very simple tools such as hoes and machette to cultivate, in some cases plo...