Intensive agriculture
An agricultural system with high productivity per unit area. Intensive agricultural systems also frequently have high input requirements per unit area, relying upon the use of mechanization, fertilizers, and agrochemicals.
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Large amounts of labour and capital are necessary to the application of fertilizer, insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides to growing crops, and capital is particularly important to the acquisition and maintenance of high-efficiency machinery for planting, cultivating, and harvesting, as well as irrigation equipment where that is required.
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