Intensive farming is a system of
cultivation using large amounts of labor that is necessary for the application
of fertilizer, insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides to growing crops, and
capital is particularly important to the acquisition and maintenance of
high-efficiency machinery for planting, cultivating, and harvesting, as well as
irrigation equipment where required.
Extensive farming is a system of crop cultivation using small amounts of labor and capital in relation to area of land being farmed. The crop yield in extensive agriculture depends primarily on the natural fertility of the soil, terrain, climate, and the availability of water.
Like a lot of things, in this day and age food production is very different then it was just one hundred years ago. Belize still seems to be doing the same thing that they have been doing for thousands of year; though the focus has changed because of the exportation out to different countries and the wide and varying variety of goods throughout the world.
Refined sugar is the main export of Belize although they also export citrus (mainly orange and grapefruit) and banana plantations have traditionally dominated export production in Belize.
Belize
remains one of the least densely populated countries in the Americas, so there
is a lot more room for agricultural farming on top of farming being the number
one job in Belize exchange earnings, and sellers of foods and goods is one of
the best ways to earn money in the county as it takes up almost a third of the
total labor force. If it was not for the farmers, Belize's economy would
be almost nothing of what it is today.
Figure 1: Pictured above is a
truck transporting grapefruits
from a factory in Belize.
Work Cited:
http://www.new-ag.info/en/country/profile.php?a=847
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