This type of farming is still practised in few pockets of India . Primitive subsistence agriculture is practised on small patches of land with the help of primitive tools like hoe , dao and digging sticks and family/community labour . This type of farming depends upon monsoon , natural fertility of the soil and suitability of other environmental conditions to the crops grown .
It is a slash and Burn agriculture . Farmers clear a patch of land and produce serials and other food crops to sustain their family . When the soil fertility decreases the farmers shift and clear office patch of land for cultivation . This type of shifting allows nature to replenish the fertility of soil through natural processes , and productivity in this type of agriculture is low as the farmer does not use for fertilizers or other modern inputs . It is known by different names in different part of the country .
