What are the differences between subsistence and commercial agriculture?

The differences between subsistence and commercial agriculture are as given below:
Subsistence agriculture: –
(i) It is practised on small patches of land.
(ii) Primitive tools such as hoe, dao and digging sticks are used. It is done with the help of family community labour.
(iii) It is practised in thickly populated areas.
(iv) This farming depends upon monsoon, natural fertility of the soil and other environmental conditions.
(v) Cereals like wheat and millets are mainly grown to sustain their family.
Commercial agriculture: –
(i) It is not practised on small patches of land e.g., tea,coffee.
(ii) High yielding variety seeds, chemical firtilised, insecticides and pesticides are used to obtain higher productivity.
(iii)It is grown in sparsely populated areas.
(iv) Development of dense network of canal irrigation and tube wells have made possible to grow rice-a commercial crop -in areas of less rainfall as Punjab and Haryana.
(v) Wheat, cotton, rice are grown on commercial basis. Plantation is also a type of commercial farming. In India tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana, etc. are plantation crops.