Explain any three characteristics of hunting and gathering. Give two reasons why gathering has little chance to become important at global level.

Explanation

The characteristics of hunting and gathering are:
Characteristics:
(i) It involves primitive societies, who extract both plants and animals to satisfy their needs for food, shelter and clothing.
(ii) This type of activity requires a small amount of capital investment and operates at very low level of technology.
(iii) The yield per person is very low and little or no surplus is produced.
Reasons: (i) Its products cannot compete in the world market.
(ii) Synthetic products often of better quality and at lower prices have replaced such many items.