Food and Its Impact on Australia

Figure 1: Feeding the Future

       Intensive and extensive farming, also known as intensive and extensive agriculture, are prevalent around the world and are very important techniques on how to treat land to produce food. Furthermore, there are two more techniques on how the wheat like corn etc. or animals are going to be treated.The names of those techniques are industrial and traditional food production. In the following paragraph the difference is going to be explained. On the one hand there is intensive farming is characterized as follows; The land which has to be farmed is cultivated intensely for years or is going to be prepared for years. New agriculture methods and the knowledge of the humans is valuable for that technique to improve the farm. The farm is carried in densely populated areas like India, Japan or U.K and they are small as well. Finally the yield per hectare is bigger than per person. On the other hand there is extensive farming. This technique is dominated by machines and the will to gain more and more. It is used in areas where the population is not high, therefore the farms are very large. Here we have a bigger yield per person than per hectare. Examples for that technique are USA, Canada, and Australia(Source 1). 

       If a country does industrial food production they use chemistry to make corn for example growing bigger and faster or they treat corn with chemistry to keep little animals away which could destroy the yield. Animals are going to be hold in cages and in a small area. That means the animals can not move like they are used to and therefore the quality of the meat is going to be bad. Traditional food production is the opposite of industrial. Animals and wheat are treated in a different way. Animals have space and can follow their normal behaviors. Corn for instance is treated without any chemistry so the quality of it is going to be better. Finally, it is mention-able that extensive farming in Australia is ahead of intensive farming which is caused by the huge area of land in Australia and the less population pressure. Furthermore, Australia is well known for its traditional food production. For instance the sheep farms in the outback, where over 82 million sheep were held. They have enough space to live their life as usual and with that a good quality is guaranteed. In wheat Australia is known for the organic farming in which no chemistry is going to be used (Source 2). 

Works Cited
(Figure 1) Feeding the Future https://www.google.co/search?q=food+production+in+australia
(Source 1) http://www.preservearticles.com/201107088999/difference-between-intensive-farming-and-extensive-farming.html
(Source 2) http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-farming-and-agriculture