Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming (as opposed to extensive farming), conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture...
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Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, also known (particularly by opponents) as factory farming, is a type of intensive...
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Intensive pig farming, also known as pig factory farming, is the primary method of pig production, in which grower pigs are housed indoors in group-housing...
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The intensive agriculture of the province of Almeria, Spain, is a model of the utilization of highly technical means to achieve maximum economic yield...
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Intensive crop farming is a modern industrialized form of crop farming. Intensive crop farming's methods include innovation in agricultural machinery,...
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Extensive farming or extensive agriculture (as opposed to intensive farming) is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilizers...
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Agriculture (redirect from Farming)
Britannica's definition of Intensive Agriculture". Archived from the original on 5 July 2006. "BBC School fact sheet on intensive farming". Archived from the...
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Sustainable agriculture (redirect from Sustainable intensive agriculture)
population growth and dwindling land suitable for agriculture, sustainable intensive farming practises are needed to maintain high crop yields, while maintaining...
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Rotational grazing (redirect from Management intensive farming)
and shelter. The approach often produces lower outputs than more intensive animal farming operations, but requires lower inputs, and therefore sometimes...
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Hydroponics (redirect from Hydroponic farming)
usage in agriculture. To grow 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of tomatoes using intensive farming methods requires 214 liters (47 imp gal; 57 U.S. gal) of water; using...
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Organic farming, also known as organic agriculture or ecological farming or biological farming, is an agricultural system that emphasizes the use of naturally...
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Food industry History of agriculture Intensive farming List of agricultural universities and colleges Organic farming Outline of agriculture Sustainable...
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Banana plantation (section Farming techniques)
major agricultural techniques: Intensive farming, sustainable farming, organic farming, and fair trade farming. An intensive agricultural technique which...
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Family farm (redirect from Family-operated farming operation)
many forms, from smallholder farms to larger farms operated under intensive farming practices. In various countries, most farm families have structured...
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The Triumph of Technique (category Intensive farming)
Wolf argues that technique, as he defines it, has taken the art out of farming by transforming it into agribusiness, on a much larger scale. He claims...
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Animal husbandry (redirect from Pastoral farming)
adapted to the type of land available. Subsistence farming is being superseded by intensive animal farming in the more developed parts of the world, where...
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Dryland farming and dry farming encompass specific agricultural techniques for the non-irrigated cultivation of crops. Dryland farming is associated with...
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Indian prawn (section Semi-intensive)
Grow-out techniques can be extensive, semi-intensive or intensive. This is the traditional system of shrimp farming which involves stocking of the wild seed...
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market-gardening : including practical details of "intensive cultivation" for English growers "Is Organic Farming Better for the Environment? | Genetic Literacy...
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Supercow (dairy) (category Intensive farming)
Supercow (also super cow or super-cow) is a term used in the dairy industry to denote lines or individual animals that have superior milk production: that...
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Ranch (redirect from Cattle-farming)
Garden tools Estancia Holistic management Homestead (buildings) Intensive animal farming § Cattle List of Ranches and Stations Movie ranch Pastoralism Ranch...
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and 68 percent of eggs are produced intensively. One alternative to intensive poultry farming is free-range farming using lower stocking densities. Poultry...
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Slash-and-burn (redirect from Swidden farming)
alternatives being promoted are switching to more intensive, permanent farming methods, or promoting a shift from farming to working in different, higher-paying...
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collecting feces from wild Asian palm civets has given way to an intensive farming method, in which the palm civets are kept in battery cages and are...
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businesses that supply most of the food consumed by the world's population Intensive farming or industrial agriculture, various types of, often highly mechanised...
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to many different styles of farming: intensive commercial units, commercial free range enterprises, or extensive farming (being allowed to wander around...
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Agricultural machinery (redirect from Farming equipment)
Agricultural machinery relates to the mechanical structures and devices used in farming or other agriculture. There are many types of such equipment, from hand...
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History of agriculture (redirect from History of farming)
switched from nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles to permanent settlements and farming. Wild grains were collected and eaten from at least 104,000 years ago....
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Hybrid seed (category Intensive farming)
In agriculture and gardening, hybrid seed is produced by deliberately cross-pollinating parent plants which are genetically distinct. The parents are usually...
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