Intensive farming
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![A commercial chicken house raising broiler pullets for meat.](/Images/godic/202412/20/Florida_chicken_house0507.jpg")
![Satellite image of circular crop fields in Haskell County, Kansas in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops of corn and sorghum are green (Sorghum may be slightly paler). Wheat is brilliant gold. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or have lain in fallow for the year.](/Images/godic/202412/20/Crops_Kansas_AST_200106240507.jpg")
Intensive farming or intensive agriculture also known as industrial agriculture is characterized by a low fallow ratio and higher use of inputs such as capital and labour per unit land area. This is in contrast to traditional agriculture in which the inputs per unit land are lower.