Correct Answer - Option 1 : Extensive farming
The correct answer is Extensive farming.
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Takkal is used in Extensive farming.
- Extensive farming is a system of crop cultivation using small amounts of labour and capital in relation to the area of land being farmed.
Difference between Extensive and Intensive farming:
| Intensive Farming |
Extensive Farming |
| Intensive farming refers to an agricultural system, wherein there is high-level use of labour and capital, in comparison to land area. |
Extensive farming is a farming technique, in which large farms are being cultivated, with relatively lower inputs. |
| It is practised in densely populated regions. |
It is practised in moderately populated regions. |
| Land productivity under this type of agriculture is high. |
Land productivity under this type of agriculture remains low. |
| Farmland near to market. |
Farmland remotely located. |
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Plantation farming:
- Plantation farming is a single crop farming of rubber, tea, coffee, cocoa, spices, coconut, and fruit crops like apples, grapes, oranges, etc.
- Plantation agriculture is export-oriented agriculture. Most of the crops grown in plantation agriculture have a life cycle of more than two years.
- This type of agriculture has developed in hilly areas of north-eastern India, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, and in Nilgiri, Anamalai, and Cardamom hills in peninsular India.
