Farming Techniques

Let's have a look at the different techniques used for farming.

Intenstive farming: as the name suggests, intensive farming is the process of using a lot of workers and a lot of money to have the highest yield of produce created. It is often seen by using high amounts of pesticides, fertilisers and other production inputs for crops. For animals, it includes the use of medication to provide them with vaccines and growth hormones for regulated growth.

Factory farming: a form of intensive farming, factory farming is using giant farm factories to express farm animals (such as chickens or ducks) for use in foods. The same goes for agriculture, where it is performed to increase the amount of yield per land unit.

Organic farming: a rise in popularity due to the humane ways animals are looked after, and how foods are grown, organic farming is a method of farming that allows for no pesticides or growth hormones to be used. Animals and plants are just left to grow naturally using only natural ingredients.

Monoculture farming: a monoculture farm is an area of land that is wholly for growing one kind of crop at one time.

There are advantages and disadvantages to each type of farming above. Some more than others. And they each come with their own style of work.

Here's a YouTube video from Fuse on Farming Techniques:

Overfishing and Farming

There are issues when it comes to fishing the seas. With such high demands of the need for food, fishing from the seas can be overdone. This means there are quotas in place for fishing that limits the amount of fish taken from points.

The same is said for farming. While we can grow crops each year on the same pieces of land, that land can also become overused. When this happens, it won't grow anything to any extent. So, farmers today always put one or two fields on rotation. This is known as set-aside.