Agriculture(PKG)

• What is subsistence farming


  small scale farming with poor farmers growing crops using traditional means of agriculture for their own families
• what is commercial Farming

  large scale farming which is done by farmers to earn money by using mordern methods of agriculture for the domestic market or export
• What are food crops?

  edible crops like fruits and vegetales
• what are cash crops?

  crops which are used to sell in the domestic market or export
• what is barrani farming?

  farming that depends on rain as the water resourse
• what are rabi crops?

  they are winter crops which sow in oct-nov and harvest in april-may
• what is a kahrif crop?

  summer crop which sows in april - may harvests oct-nov
• what is Tenace farming?

  farming on a gentle slope by growing plants on the side of a hill or mountain
• what is contour farming?

  farming on a different altitude of the mountains or hills
• what is nomadic farming?

  when nomads migrate from place to place to find water and greenry. they clear natural vegetation to grow their own crops using shifting cultivation
• what is horti culture?

  cultivation of fruits and flower farming
• what is transhumance?

  migration of northern citizens to warmer climate in winter season with their animals