Intensive agriculture: Farming that uses large amounts of labor or capital per unit area to maximize yield from a small amount of land.
How to apply it: Use intensive agriculture to explain wet-rice cultivation in South and East Asia.
Course: AP Human Geography · Unit: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes
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