Know the Disadvantages of Intensive Farming

Many people turned to intensive farming because it is giving high productivity and profits. Through this method, our lives are posing to risk because this method is using chemicals in producing the food. The food that contains these chemicals are ingesting in to our bodies through the food we eat. Due to this chemicals we are affected to many illnesses.

Animal farms with over populated conditions and pollution can lead to animal sickness and diseases. Intensive farming uses chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides to produce maximum crops.

Below are some of the disadvantages of intensive farming:

• Intensive farming changes the environment in many ways. Large open fields are created by destroying the forests in order to make the process more efficient but this often can leads to soil erosion and a loss in the animals natural habitat that live on the farm land.
• If the land is not properly managed, then it is not sustainable which may result in desertification, or land becomes poisonous where nothing can grow there.
• Use of such large amounts of fertilizers contaminates the biology of water bodies such as rivers and lakes which ultimately change to some shape or form.
• Spraying of pesticides on crops not only destroys pests and contaminate the crops but also it kills the useful insects. Consuming this chemical food are passed on to the human beings which can lead to illness.
• It needs large amounts of energy inputs to produce, transport, and apply chemical fertilizers/pesticides.
• Here in this method of farming, animals are raising in a limited space which means we are forcing or binding them to stay there without leaving free.