Advantages
Extensive farming has a number of advantages over intensive farming:
- Less labour per unit areas is required to farm large areas, especially since expensive alterations to land (like terracing) are completely absent.
- Mechanisation can be used more effectively over large, flat areas.
- Greater efficiency of labour means generally lower product prices.
- Animal welfare is generally improved because animals are not kept in stifling conditions.
- Lower requirements of inputs such as fertilizers.
- If animals are grazed on pastures native to the locality, there is less likely to be problems with exotic species.
- Local environment and soil are not damaged by overuse of chemicals.
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