• Intensive subsistence farming is done in many parts of China, Japan, India etc. • (i) Intensive subsistence agriculture dominated by wet paddy cultivation. (ii) Intensive subsidence agriculture dominated by crops other than paddy, • (I) Characteristics of Wet Paddy cultivation (i) It is characterised by dominance of the rice crop. Land holdings are very small due to the high density of population. (ii) Farmers work with the help of family labour leading to intensive use of land. Use of machinery is limited and most of agricultural operation are done by manual labour. The yield per unit acre is high but per labour productivity is low. (II) Intensive subsidence agriculture is dominated by crops other than paddy:— (i) Due to the difference in relief, climate, soil and some of the other geographical factors, it is not practical to grow paddy in many parts of monsoon area. (ii) Wheat, soyabean, barley and Sorghum are grown in northern China, Manchuria, North Korea and North Japan. In India, wheat is grown in Western parts of the IndoGangetic plains and millets are grown in dry parts of western and southern India.