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Corporate farming is the practice of large-scale agriculture on farms owned or greatly influenced by large companies. This includes corporate ownership of farms and the sale of agricultural products , as well as the roles of these companies in influencing agricultural education, research, and public policy through funding initiatives and ...
Subsistence agriculture generally features: small capital/finance requirements, mixed cropping, limited use of agrochemicals (e.g. pesticides and fertilizer), unimproved varieties of crops and animals, little or no surplus yield for sale, use of crude/traditional tools (e.g. hoes, machetes, and cutlasses), mainly the production of crops, small ...
A history of agricultural policy : chronological outline ( U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, 1992) online; Ardrey, Robert L, American agricultural implements: a review of invention and development in the agricultural implement industry of the United States (1894) online; a major comprehensive overview in 236 pages.
Selling to the wholesale market usually earns 10–20% of the retail price, but direct-to-consumer selling earns 100%. Although highly variable, a conventional farm may return US$0.03 to US$0.30/m 2 (US$120 to US$1,210 per acre; US$300 to US$3,000 per hectare) but an efficient market garden can earn in the US$2 to US$5/m 2 (US$8,100 to US$20,200 per acre; US$20,000 to US$50,000 per hectare ...
By about 1500 a few of these city-states probably met the requirements of having half of their populations engaged in non-agricultural pursuits and became commercial societies. These small states were highly urbanized, imported much food, and were centers of trade and manufacture to a degree quite unlike typical agrarian societies.
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Mixed farming is a type of farming which involves both the growing of crops and the raising of livestock. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Such agriculture occurs across Asia and in countries such as India , Malaysia , Indonesia , Afghanistan , South Africa , China , Central Europe , Nordic countries , Canada , and Russia .
Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming (as opposed to extensive farming), conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per unit of agricultural land area.