Question

Differentiate between intensive farming and extensive farming.

Give two points of difference between extensive and intensive farming.

Answer 1

	Intensive farming	Extensive Farming
1.	This farming strategy is used to cultivate small farms extensively.	This kind of farming is carried out on huge farms with the assistance of machinery and requires little labour input per unit of land.
2.	More than one crop is cultivated in the same field.	Farmers specializes in the production of one or two major commercial crops.
3.	It is labour-intensive farming.	It is highly capital-intensive farming.
4.	In this type of farming, per-unit production is high.	In this type of farming, per-unit production is low, but total crop production is high due to extensive land holdings.