Advantages and Disadvantages of Intensive Farming
In intensive subsistence agriculture, the farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labor. Subsistence agriculture is the type of farming in which crops grown are consumed by the grower and his family. It is of different types. Wheat, soybeans, and barley are majorly grown intensively in subsistence farms of northern parts of china, japan, and Korea and also parts of India like Punjab. In areas where rainfall is not adequate, food crops like millet are grown. Advantages of intensive subsistence: It produces vegetables, fruits, beef, meat, eggs; milk prices are more economical compare to traditional farming, because it produces food in large quantities and requires less space. Intensive subsistence agriculture also helped in solving the scarcity of food by producing a good amount. One of the major advantages of this farming technique is that the crop yield is high, it helps the farmer to easily supervise and monitor the land and protect his livestock...