What is the difference between present and ancient agriculture?

What is the difference between subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture?

• Answer:

  The differences between subsistence agriculture and commercial agriculture are as follows: 1. In subsistence agriculture, the farmer produces only enough for his family whereas in commercial agriculture, the farmer produces for his own profits. 2. In subsistence agriculture, the farmer has very large families to feed, so, there is not enough scope for a chance to get a profit whereas in commercial agriculture, the farmer does not have large families to feed, so, there is a large chance of having a profit. 3. As the farmer has large families, the farmer of the next generation has very small lands to do agriculture because as the farmer has many sons and daughters, the land is divided into many small parts after the farmers death whereas in commercial agriculture, the farmer does not have large families to feed, so he does not have many sons and daughters and so the land is not divided into many small parts after the farmers death, so, his sons and daughters have large lands, so they have more chance of making a profit than substituent farmers. 4. As the farmer has very small lands and very less or no profit, the farmer has no chance of mechanization as the machines cannot work in very small lands and the farmer does not have enough money to buy machines whereas in commercial agriculture, the farmer has large land and much money, so, he better technology than the substituent farmer. 5. In subsistence agriculture, because of small lands, the farmer has not enough space for good storage of his crops whereas in commercial farming, the farmer has huge lands and more than enough space for storage, so, the farmer has great storage facility.