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Answered by INVISIBLEDEMON
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What is intensive agriculture why it is common in India?

Intensive Agriculture: In areas where irrigation has been possible, the farmers use fertilizers and pesticides on large scale to bring their land under high yielding variety of seeds. It is also known as industrial agriculture. It involves higher use of inputs such as capital and labor per unit land area

What is China's agriculture?

Agriculture is a vital industry in China, employing over 300 million farmers. China ranks first in worldwide farm output, primarily producing rice, wheat, potatoes, tomato, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed and soybeans.

Intensive farming. Due to extreme demands for food, agriculture in China is intense. An article claimed that 22% of the global population depend on 7% of the land in the world to produce food, and a bulk of it is from China. In the past, agriculture was an activity that produces food and yet still absorbs carbon.

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Answered by Anonymous
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Intensive Agriculture Is Largrly Practiced Largely In India and China!

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In India and China the following types of farming are practiced:-

1. Shifting Agriculture(Jhoom):

(i) In shifting agriculture, land is obtained by cleaning forest and agriculture is practiced till the fertility of the farm is exhausted. After this another farm is cleared and agriculture is practiced on it.

(ii) Usually, plant, tuber crops like yam, tapioca and root crops are raised. (Hi) It is practiced mainly by tribal living in forest.

2. Subsistence Agriculture:

(i) In subsistence agriculture, farmer and his family produce cereals for themselves only or for local market.

(ii) Cereals like wheat, rice, millets are mainly raised. This is practiced in most parts of India even today.

3. Intensive Farming:

(i) Intensive farming aims at maximum possible production on the limited farms with all efforts possible under the circumstances.

(ii) Intensive farming is capable of raising more than one crop a year.

(iii) Huge capital and human labour is employed on every hectare of land.

(iv) It is practiced in most parts of densely populated areas.

4. Extensive Farming:

(i) It is the modern system of farming done on large farms.

(ii) It is also known as mechanical farming due to extensive use of machines.

(iii) Extensive farm raises only one crop a year.

(iv) Employment of labour and capital per hectare of land is comparatively less.

(v) It is practiced in sparsely populated areas like USA, Canada, Russia and Australia.

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