Intensive Subsistence Agriculture Flashcards
What’s intensive subsistence agriculture
Farmers work intensively to subsist on a parcel of land
where
east south southesat asia
densely populated
why do they have to be intensive
they dont own a lot of land-small fragments
whats wet rice mean?
practice of planting rice on dry land in a nursery and then moving the seedlings to a flooded fieldd
wet rice intensive is most cominant where
southeast china
southeast asia
east india
steps to growing rice
1-plow the field with an animal
2-flood the field
3 grow seedlings in a nursery on dryland
4-tansplant seedlings to flooded field
whats a sawah
a flooded field
whats a paddy
a flooded field
difference between”sawah” and
“paddy’
sawah=correct
paddy=wet rice (incorrect)
stepd to collecting rice
1- by ahnd with knives
seperate husks from the seeds
2-beat the rice on the ground or trample them to seperate chaff from seeds
3- threshed rice is put in a tray and the lighter chaff is winnowed
4-to consume directly, remove the hull by mortar and pestle
5-commecial rice is whitened and polished (removing nutrients0
whats a chaff
the husk of a rice plant
whats threshed mea?
beat out grain from stalks by trampling it
what does winnowed mean?
blown aways
-like the husk of the plantis blown away, leaving just the seeds
whats a hull?
outer covering of the seed
how is the hull removed
mortar and pestle
wet rice is best grown on —land
flat
where is most wet rice farming
rive valleys and deltas
whats double cropping
obtaining two harvests per year
what climate is doiuble cropping common
warm wintes
where is double cropping (countries)
south china and taiwan
what is usually doubled in doublecropping
wet rice and dry crop
what does interior india and northeastchina grow
crops other than wet rice
wheatmostly-then barley
how does china split its land
in communist revolution 1949, communist govnt tries to own land called communes-but nowthey are being contracted to farmers for personal use
