What are the characteristics of subsistence agriculture?

Features of subsistence farming are as follows:

1. Small-holdings: It is characterised by small and scattered land holdings and use of primitive tools.
2. The farmers do not use fertiliser and high yielding variety of seeds as they are poor.
3. Electricity and irrigation facilities are not generally available to them which results in low productivity.
4. Most of the production is consumed by the generally available to them which result in low productivity.
5. Most of the food production is consumed by the farmers and their families.
6. Where facilities like electricity and irrigation are available farming has improved.
7. Important cash crops like sugarcane, oilseeds, cotton and jute are grown.
8. Dryland farming is practised in areas where the rainfall is low and irrigation facilities are inadequate land farming is practised in high rainfall and irrigated areas.
9. High population pressure
10. Many crops from the same field
11. More limits of human labour
12. Ordinary tools of agriculture
13. Extensive use of fertilizers.
14. Beginning of modern techniques.