Extensive farming

Extensive farming

Extensive farming (as opposed to intensive farming) is an agricultural production system that uses little inputs on vast areas of land, such as the Great Plains.

Extensive farming most commonly refers to sheep and cattle farming in areas with low agricultural productivity.

Geography

Extensive farming is found in the mid-latitude sections of most continents. The nature of extensive farming means it requires less rainfall than that of intensive farming. The farm is usually large in comparison with the numbers working on it or the money spent on it.

Just as the demand has led to the basic division of cropping and pastoral activities, these areas can also be subdivided depending on the regions rainfall, vegetation type and agricultural activity within the area and the many other parentheses related to this data.

Economic Viability

Infrastructure

Rural Life

"see Rural sociology"

ee also

*Intensive farming
*Canadian Wheat Board
*Forest gardening
*Permaculture
*Polyculture


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