Intensive farming

Intensive farming or intensive agriculture is an agriculture production system that by the high input of capital, fertilizer, labor, or labor-saving technologies such as pesticides concerning country area are characterized. This is agriculture vast in contrast to the concept which involves a low input of material and labor with the plant turnover that mainly of course available floor fertility, water supplies or other country qualities depend.

The modern day forms agriculture based of intensive plant involve the use of mechanical ploughing, chemical fertilizer, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and the rule donors of the installation increase and/or pesticides. It is associated with the rising use of agriculture mechanization, which has allowed a substantial increase of production. Intensive animal the agriculture practices can involve very large numbers of animals which limit on country are bred that large quantities require food, water and medical input (that it is required the animals in obstructed conditions healthy keep). Very large or restricted within intensive cattle far directions (particularly describing of common the agriculture practices of the U.S.) are frequently intended as factory treating and antagonists for the low level of well-being of animals standards and associated pollution and health questions criticized.

Advantages:

• Considerably increased yield per available space than extensive farming.
• Often leads to cheaper priced products because of better universal production rate for the cost of raw materials.
• Not much space for the animal to move therefore less energy used up; so less food supplied to the cattle, which leads to cheaper products.
• Many people feel its essential to use intensive farming for better profits and economic growth.

Disadvantages:

• Removal of buffers to make large fields for maximum effectiveness leading to lower food costs and greater food accessibility to the poor. But it also limits the natural habitat of some wild creatures and can lead to dirt erosion.
• Use of fertilizers can alter the biology of rivers and lakes. Some environmentalists attribute the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico as being encouraged by nitrogen fertilization of the algae bloom.
• Pesticides can kill helpful insects as well as those that destroy crops.
• Generally not sustainable.
• Often results in an inferior product.