Get to Know the Benefits of Intensive Farming?

Intensive farming is a method of maximum yield of producing plants or raising animals which relies mostly on the use of technologies like modern ploughing techniques, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers. Intensive farming is practiced widely by many developed economies of the world.

Following are some of the advantages of intensive farming:

• By intensive farming, it is possible to achieve higher quality crops leading to higher profits.
• It allows you to produce a larger amount than you would normally because you need only a small space or room to produce the plants or to raise the animals.
• People can afford the price of food because the cost of producing the crop is less.
• The same area of land can also be used to store food and fiber for supplying to the larger population reducing the risk of starvation.
• If you use less space for keeping cattle, you need not to spend extra energy in moving from here to there.
• The new method of indoor crop technology which controls climate conditions and neutralizes weather hazards, theoretically enabling year-round growth activity introduced the concept of intensive farming.
• You can also control the flow of production while protecting the high quality of price year-round, ensuring the farmer a stable income flow.
• In the case of intensive live stock farming, capturing methane emissions from it can be used to generate heat or electrical energy thereby reducing the local fossil fuels.

The preservation of existing areas of woodland and rainforest habitats (and the ecosystems and other sustainable economies that these may harbor), which would need to be felled for extensive farming methods in the same geographical location. This also leads to a reduction in anthropogenic CO2 generation (resulting from removal of the sequestration afforded by woodlands and rainforests).