Intensive agriculture is an agricultural production system characterized by the significant use of inputs, and seeking to maximize the production. It is sometimes also called productivist agriculture.
Intensive agriculture made it possible to greatly increase productivity during the twentieth century, and helped assure proper food supply for the growing population. Agricultural productivity gains allowed for the reduction in the farming population, mostly in developed countries.
Intensification of agriculture from the sixties to the eighties is also known as the green revolution. Developing nations often could not profit from the advantages of modern agriculture in particular due to poor climate and lack of funds.
Intensive farming is often at the expense of environmental considerations, which explains its rejection from some producers and consumers.
Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming) is the art, science or practice of producing food, feed, fiber and many other goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals.
Agriculture is also short for the study of the practice of agriculture—more formally known as agricultural science.
Intensiveagriculture also depletes the fertility of the land over time and the end effect is that which happened in the Middle East, where some of the most fertile farmland in the world was turned into a desert by intensiveagriculture.
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