What is intensive farming? Explain its main characteristics.

1.	What is intensive farming? Explain its main characteristics.
Answer» The land holdings are usually small in a thickly populated area, farming is very intensive and produced more is known as “Intensive farming”. It is a labour and capital Intensive farming. Large amount of labour and capital is used on small land holding to get maximum production of crops. The available small piece of land is used for cultivation with irrigation facilities through out the year. In this system, farmers try to raise two or more crops, with careful tilling of the soil. Intensive agriculture is characterized by high yields per unit area and farmers try to get the maximum production from small land holdings. It is common in the fertile and irrigated parts of the country. In this type, agricultural operations are carried on by manual labour and animals. Rice is the main crop of Intensive farming.

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