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What are the advantages of subsistence farming?

What are the advantages of subsistence farming?

Posted on March 2, 2023March 8, 2023 By Emmanuel William No Comments on What are the advantages of subsistence farming?

The advantages of subsistence farming are:

  • Zero labor cost 
  • Low financial requirement 
  • Food production
  • Good land utilization 
  • Skill acquisition 
  • Low risk 
  • Improves the health of the farmer and his family 

Zero labor cost 

The farmer and his family members are always readily available to carry out their farming processes. There is usually no need to hire laborers because it is a small-scale farming system. This is one of the advantages of subsistence farming. 

Low financial requirement 

Are you looking for a farming process that requires very little set-up capital?

If yes, Subsistence farming is the right one for you. 

The resources needed to set up a subsistence farm are lost times readily available in the environment. 

A farmer will only have to be good at identifying the resources available and be able to improvise for the non-available resources. 

Food production

Are you the type that loves to always have access to fresh food items to consume?

If yes, then subsistence farming is for you. 

With the available space around you like your backyard, you can have access to the kind of fresh food items you need by tuning that space into a subsistence farm. You can plant crops like vegetables and fruits on your subsistence farm. 

Good land utilization

Subsistence farming allows the possibility of properly utilizing the available land spacing by allowing the planting of two or more crops on the same piece of land. 

This is one of the advantages of subsistence farming. 

Skill acquisition 

Subsistence farming is one of the best skills that youth can be trained on to get them busy, feed themselves and their family, and also earn a living. This is one of the advantages of subsistence farming. 

Low risk 

Subsistence farming is characterized by low risk because the farmer puts in very little or no investment in the production process. 

Improves the health of the farmer and his family 

The practice of subsistence farming makes food available to the farmer and his family at all times which is a great contribution to a healthy living for the farmer and his family. The farmer’s health and those of his family members will greatly improve because of the access to fresh food they have. This is a great advantage of subsistence farming. 

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