Question

Compare intensive farming and extensive farming.

Answer 1

Instructions:

• Explain farming
• Compare intensive farming and extensive farming

Solution:
Farming is the science and art of cultivating land for growing food or raising animals and livestock.

• Intensive farming
  • Intensive farming is getting maximum production from a small plot of land
  • Farming is done by manual labour mostly the cultivator and his family
  • Farm production is low and only sufficient for the family’s requirement
  • This type of farming is seen in developing regions with the low economic conditions
• Extensive farming
  • In extensive farming farm size is greater than 200 hectares
  • Farming involves huge capital as it is carried out with the help of machinery and chemical fertilisers and pesticides
  • Monocrop cultivation is mostly practised
  • This type of farming is mostly seen in temperate grassland regions