Intensive Subsistence with Wet Rice Dominant

Intensive Subsistence with Wet Rice Dominant-China 

Intensive subsistence refers to farmers working intensively to subsist on a parcel of land. Asian countries are including China and India are among the top producers of rice in the world. Rice is the primary staple of almost all households in Asia. Most of the work is done by animals or human labor rather than machinery. 

While in China, I realized that although copious amounts of rice were being produced, there were still many going hungry in this region. China's large populations are becoming increasingly hard to keep up with on the agricultural front. There was a large number of farmers to work on fields, and land seemed to be passed down to subsequent generations of families. Unfortunately, the economic and environmental cost of producing rice is increasing. China is facing rising prices of rice, in part due to industrialization. 

http://reliefweb.int/report/china/china-world’s-largest-rice-importer-regional-implications