Agricultural productivity
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Agricultural productivity is measured as the ratio of agricultural outputs to inputs. While individual products are usually measured by weight, which is known as crop yield, varying products make meas
Grain silos -- increases in yields of grain and grain calory production has been the main cause of productivity increases in the 20th century.
Rice plantation in Thailand
Cambodians planting rice, 2004
A cooperative dairy factory in Victoria.
Intensive farming
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Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming, conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output pe
Agricultural productivity
…improve farmer livelihoods in the developing world. Because agriculture has such significant impacts on climate change and other environmental issues, intensification of agriculture, which would increase productivity per amount of land being farmed, is seen by some as an essential method for climate change mitigation…
Intensive farming of wheat in Lund, Sweden
Early 20th-century image of a tractor ploughing an alfalfa field
Cow in enclosed pasture eating grass through wire fence
A commercial chicken house raising broiler pullets for meat