Difference between old and new farming methods
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Traditional Farming": The original farming method handed down from generation to generation. It involves the intensive use of indigenous knowledge, natural resources and cultural beliefs of the farmers.
Traditional farming system is technically and technologically primitive. The land is farmed to provide sustenance; everything that is produced is needed for survival (subsistence).
One fifth of the world farms in this manner, constituting the largest part of world agriculture. Today it is rare for people to live from hunting and fruit gathering. There are also few people whose occupation is nomadic agriculture and animal husbandry.
Extensive farming with simple tools and crops
Basic instruments: axe, hoe, stick.
Methods: burn the plants in a field and sow in the ashes.
Cattle raisin helps to create fallow land.
In the absence of private property, public or communal land predominates.
There is no surplus production.
“Modern Farming”: Farmer Database & Big data Agribusiness | Agriculture Market Online - KG2 Modern farming technology is used to improve the wide types of production practices employed by farmers. It makes use of hybrid seeds of selected variety of a single crop, technologically advanced equipment and lots of energy subsidies in the form of irrigation water, fertilizers and pesticides.
Modern farming methods increase the production in almost every sector. Using modern agriculture and farming is a must because modern farming methods can increase production and can feed the world. The economy of some country is mostly depend on agriculture and farming related business. A major part of the population are directly or indirectly involved with agriculture and farming business. Income source of people are limited. So raising poultry, ducks, dairy, fish, sheep, goat etc. can be a great source of earning some extra income. As well as it will ensure availability of food for the next generation and continuously growing population.
Traditional farming system is technically and technologically primitive. The land is farmed to provide sustenance; everything that is produced is needed for survival (subsistence).
One fifth of the world farms in this manner, constituting the largest part of world agriculture. Today it is rare for people to live from hunting and fruit gathering. There are also few people whose occupation is nomadic agriculture and animal husbandry.
Extensive farming with simple tools and crops
Basic instruments: axe, hoe, stick.
Methods: burn the plants in a field and sow in the ashes.
Cattle raisin helps to create fallow land.
In the absence of private property, public or communal land predominates.
There is no surplus production.
“Modern Farming”: Farmer Database & Big data Agribusiness | Agriculture Market Online - KG2 Modern farming technology is used to improve the wide types of production practices employed by farmers. It makes use of hybrid seeds of selected variety of a single crop, technologically advanced equipment and lots of energy subsidies in the form of irrigation water, fertilizers and pesticides.
Modern farming methods increase the production in almost every sector. Using modern agriculture and farming is a must because modern farming methods can increase production and can feed the world. The economy of some country is mostly depend on agriculture and farming related business. A major part of the population are directly or indirectly involved with agriculture and farming business. Income source of people are limited. So raising poultry, ducks, dairy, fish, sheep, goat etc. can be a great source of earning some extra income. As well as it will ensure availability of food for the next generation and continuously growing population.
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