Types of Subsistence Farming
There are three types of subsistence farming known as pastoral nomadism, shifting cultivation, and intensive or traditional subsistence agriculture. Pastoral nomadism herds and domesticates animals. This type of farming depends primarily on animals for survival and tend to adapt to dry climates. Nomads follow cyclical migration patterns and practice transhumance. Shifting cultivation clears the land for planting by slashing vegetation and burning the debris with a long knife, which takes many years for the soil to recover. People who practice this form of agriculture, generally live in small villages and grow their food on the surrounding land. Intensive subsistence agriculture feeds the most people using either wet rice dominant (double cropping) or non-wet rice dominant regions (crop rotation).
What Crops Are Grown And Where?
In pastoral nomadism, camels/sheep/goat are found in North Africa and Southwest Asia and the horse is found in Central Asia. In shifting cultivation, crops are grown by local customs ans taste. Predominant crops grown in Southeast Asia include rice, millet and sorghum in Africa, and corn and cassava are found in South America. In intensive subsistence agriculture, rice is grown in countries such as China, Vietnam, Mexico, India, Cambodia, and Peru.
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