intensive agriculture
High-yield crop production
Intensive agriculture is farming that maximizes yield from a given area through heavy inputs—fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation, and mechanization.
The approach contrasts with extensive agriculture, which uses more land but fewer inputs per acre.
Intensive agriculture has transformed global food production but raised environmental concerns about soil depletion and water pollution.
- soil erosionLoss of topsoil
- soil depletionLoss of ground fertility
- monocultureSingle-crop agricultural system
- high yieldAbundant output ratio
- fertilizersSubstances enriching soil
food security · pesticides · crop dusting · greenhouse farming · crop rotation · intercropping · greenhouse gas emissions · eutrophication · nitrogen cycle · biodiversity loss · labor · seeds · carbon footprint · water pollution · aquaponics · hydroponics · water resources · irrigation systems
intensive agriculturedryland farming
Cultivation without irrigation systems
traditional farming · shifting cultivation · slash-and-burn agriculture · ranching · grazing
intensive agriculturesubsistence farming
Growing food for household
subsistence agriculture · peasant farming · smallholder farming · family farming · homesteading
intensive agricultureorganic farming
Cultivation without synthetic chemicals
sustainable agriculture · permaculture · agroecology · natural farming · organic agriculture
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