Social Science (087) — AI-generated practice question

Intensive subsistence farming has the following features:

1. High population pressure: It is practised in areas of high population pressure on land, where holdings are small due to the right of inheritance dividing land among successive generations.

1. Labour intensive with modern inputs: It is labour intensive farming where high doses of biochemical inputs and irrigation are used to obtain higher production from limited land.

1. Maximum output from limited land: In the absence of alternative sources of livelihood, farmers try to take maximum output from their small, uneconomical land holdings.

Source: Agriculture, Types of Farming — Intensive Subsistence Farming

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• The examiner expects three distinct points, each clearly labelled or separated — one point per mark.
• All three features must come directly from the textbook passage on Intensive Subsistence Farming.
• Avoid confusing this with Primitive Subsistence Farming (slash and burn) — a common exam mistake.
• Key terms to use: labour intensive, biochemical inputs, irrigation, population pressure, right of inheritance.