Which type of farming is characterized by rearing of animals and cultivation of crops together?
Correct Answer: Mixed Farming
Subject: geography
- Subsistence Farming
- Plantation Farming
- Mixed Farming
- Multiple Cropping
Explanation: • Rearing of animals and cultivation of crops together is the chief characteristic of Mixed Farming.
• In India, Mixed farming is practiced in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
• Multiple cropping is growing two or more crops simultaneously.
• Subsistence is for self-consumption; Plantation is commercial single crop.
• "Mixed" means mixing plants (crops) with livestock (animals).
• Sequential cropping is growing two crops in the same field one after the other in a year.