Farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced is called ...

• A. Subsistence farming
• B. Commercial Agriculture
• C. Biodiversity
• D. Tropical climate

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is subsistence farming, which is farming aimed at meeting a family’s own food needs rather than producing crops to sell. Farmers on small plots rely on family labor and traditional methods, producing just enough staple foods—like maize, rice, or tubers—to feed themselves and their household, with little or no surplus for the market. This contrasts with commercial agriculture, where the goal is to grow crops mainly for sale and profit, often at a larger scale and with more inputs. Biodiversity refers to the variety of living organisms in an area, not a farming system, and a tropical climate is a climate type that can influence farming but isn’t about the practice itself.