Extensive Farming - Advantages

Advantages

Extensive farming has a number of advantages over intensive farming:

1. Less labour per unit areas is required to farm large areas, especially since expensive alterations to land (like terracing) are completely absent.
2. Mechanisation can be used more effectively over large, flat areas.
3. Greater efficiency of labour means generally lower product prices.
4. Animal welfare is generally improved because animals are not kept in stifling conditions.
5. Lower requirements of inputs such as fertilizers.
6. If animals are grazed on pastures native to the locality, there is less likely to be problems with exotic species.
7. Local environment and soil are not damaged by overuse of chemicals.