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About Intensive Farming and Extensive Farming.

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  Intensive Farming:         Intensive farming is also known as Intensive agriculture. It is a type of agriculture technique of cultivation practicing with lot of labour and capital which is used to increase the  agricultural produce or yields. By using heavy pesticides and chemical fertilizers.           For application of fertilizer, insecticide, fungicides, herbicides to grow crops we need large number of labours and capital. the most important we need is capital for maintenance of high efficiency machinery for cultivating, harvesting, irrigation equipment where required as well planting. Techniques and Technologies: Live Stock      a . Pasture: Improvement in the soil and grass to increase in the per unit inputs in agricultural production of live stock system.     b. Rotational grazing:  I t is the practice to feed on growing herbage live stock between land covered with gras...
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Multi-layer Farming

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Introduction: In agriculture, multi-layer farming is the practice of growing two or more plants of different heights in the same piece of land at the same time instead of just one crop. Multi-layer farming helps smallholder farmers to grow various seasonal vegetables and horticultural crops throughout the year while ensuring food and nutritional security for the household. This farming provide with an additional income from the sale of surplus produce. Multi-layer farming is also called as multi-tire farming and multistoried cropping. Multi layer cropping allows the farmers to get a good result of harvest and more earning on the same piece of land by using available sources such as fertilizers, seeds water etc.  Principles of Multi-layer Farming: Multilayer Farming is also integrated farming which is based on the principle of-High Density Planting-Making the utilization of  manure, water, land to obtain maximum productivity per unit area. Multilayer Farming use maximum availab...
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Subsistence Farming and Commercial Farming

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Subsistence Farming Farming is done to satisfy the basic needs of the farmer and his family without any profit from the farming. Features  Most of crop production is consumed by the farmers and families. Subsistence farming is done in small land and use of primitive tools. In this farming farmer will not use fertilizer and high yielding variety of seeds as they are poor. There is no require of human labour In this type of farming we need ordinary tools of agriculture. Advantages Subsistence farming is Cheapest farming, it not require huge investment. In subsistence farming hiring labour is not required.  It provide food for the family Disadvantages Subsistence farming is fully depend on the rain to do well.  It is limited production of the crops In subsistence farming there is no financial profit. This framing is not attractive for the investors to invest in the farming.  Commercial Farming Commercial farming is all about the growing of crops and/or the rearing of do...
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