18. Which of the following is a primary reason why subsistence farming is increasingly done by women? Men have decided to sell their land to commercial farmers who are more often women. Men are more likely to change the land use of subsistence farms to commercial farming. Men are more likely to leave the countryside and migrate to the city than women. Since women are having fewer children on average there is now greater responsibility for work in agriculture. None of the above are true, the trend is that growth of subsistence farmers is higher for men than it is for women.

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18. Which of the following is a primary reason why subsistence farming is
increasingly done by women?
Men have decided to sell their land to commercial farmers who are more often
women.
Men are more likely to change the land use of subsistence farms to commercial
farming.
Men are more likely to leave the countryside and migrate to the city than women.
Since women are having fewer children on average there is now greater responsibility
for work in agriculture.
None of the above are true, the trend is that growth of subsistence farmers is higher
for men than it is for women.
Transcribed Image Text:18. Which of the following is a primary reason why subsistence farming is increasingly done by women? Men have decided to sell their land to commercial farmers who are more often women. Men are more likely to change the land use of subsistence farms to commercial farming. Men are more likely to leave the countryside and migrate to the city than women. Since women are having fewer children on average there is now greater responsibility for work in agriculture. None of the above are true, the trend is that growth of subsistence farmers is higher for men than it is for women.
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Subsistence farming:

                                  The farming practice in which the use of the land is only for sustaining the personal needs, not for any income or cash profit is called Subsistence farming. Subsistence farming is mostly practiced by women all over the world, participation numbers may change.

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