How do you distinguish between commercial farming and subsistence farming on a 1:50 000 topographic map?
|
Commercial
farming |
Subsistence
farming |
|
·
The farm will usually have a name. ·
Farm road to farm buildings connecting with formal
roads (e.g. secondary road) ·
Many farm buildings ·
Advance farming features such as dams, canals,
windpumps, silos. ·
Large cultivated lands (use of tractors) ·
Cultivated lands have geometric shapes (tractors
can plow in straight lines) |
·
No names ·
No or few “other roads” not connected to
formal roads. ·
No farm buildings, only huts ·
No advanced farming features such as dams,
canals, windpumps (don’t have the capital or technology to build these). ·
Small cultivated lands and fragmented. ·
Irregular shaped cultivated lands due to the
use of basic ploughing methods. |
