Intensive

adjectiveStandard termFarming

A farming approach that maximizes output per unit of land through high inputs of labor or capital.

Intensive agriculture focuses on extracting the highest possible yield from a given acreage. This requires heavy reliance on inputs like fertilizers, irrigation, dense planting, and mechanization. It contrasts with extensive farming, which uses large tracts of land with lower inputs and lower yields per acre.

Heard on the job

We're shifting to an intensive grazing system, moving the herd to fresh paddocks every twelve hours.