Intensive subsistence agriculture dominated by non-paddy crops
Topic: Primary Activities: Gathering, Pastoralism, Agriculture and Mining · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 4 "Primary Activities"
Meaning
This is intensive subsistence agriculture in crowded monsoon Asia where paddy (rice) cannot be grown. The relief (shape of the land), climate or soil does not suit rice, so farmers grow other crops instead. Wheat, soybean, barley and sorghum grow in northern China, Manchuria, North Korea and northern Japan. In India, wheat is grown in the western Indo-Gangetic plains, and millets in dry western and southern India. Irrigation is often used. Farms are small and worked hard, so that the land can feed many people.
Example
In Punjab and Haryana, in the western Indo-Gangetic plains, farmers grow wheat on small, canal-irrigated holdings.
Don't confuse with
- Wet paddy dominated intensive subsistence agriculture: in this type rice is the main crop. It is grown in the wet, warm deltas and plains of monsoon Asia.
Related concepts
- Subsistence agriculture
- Jhum cycle
- Names of shifting cultivation worldwide
- Intensive subsistence agriculture
- Wet paddy dominated intensive subsistence agriculture
- Major rice exporters