Types of Agriculture

Requires HIGH levels of input (fertilizer, chemicals, labor, irrigation, etc)

• Intensive

• Extensive

More likely to be monocropping/monoculture (planting the same crop over and over again)

• Intensive

• Extensive

More likely to require larger amounts of land

• Intensive

• Extensive

Dairy farms are an example of:

• Intensive factory farms

• Extensive ranching

• Intensive truck farming

• Extensive pastoral nomadism

Yam cultivation in Nigeria is an example of:

• Intensive market gardening

• Extensive pastoral nomadism

• Intensive mixed crop/livestock

• Extensive shifting cultivation

Beef production in Brazil is an example of:

• Intensive mixed crop/livestock

• Extensive ranching

• Intensive factory farming

• Extensive pastoral nomadism

Coffee production in Colombia is an example of:

• Intensive market gardening

• Extensive shifting cultivation

• Intensive plantations

• Intensive truck farming

Goat herding in Mongolia is an example of

• Intensive factory farming

• Extensive ranching

• Extensive pastoral nomadism

• Intensive mixed crop/livestock

THis kind of agriculture produces crops/products which will be sold to other markets (could be local, national, or gloabl)

• Commercial

• Subsistence

Common in high population density areas (where land is more expensive)

• Intensive

• Extensive