Original sentence: But it also limits the natural habitat of some wild creatures and can lead to soil erosion.Intensive farming alters the environment in many ways.Modern day forms usually rely on the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators and/or pesticides.Modern intensive farming, or "factory farming" or "industrial agriculture", refers to the industrialized production of livestock, poultry, fish, and crops.Pesticides can kill useful insects as well as the those that destroy crops.Premodern intensive farming techniques and structures include terracing, rice paddies, and various forms of aquaculture.Removal of buffers to make large fields for maximum efficiency leading to lower food costs and greater food avaolability to the poor.System of Rice Intensification.The methods deployed designed to produce the highest output at the lowest cost; usually using economies of scale, modern machinery, modern medicine, and global trade for financing, purchases and sales.The practice is widespread in developed nations, and most of the meat, dairy, eggs, and crops available in supermarkets are produced in this manner.Use of fertilizers can alter the biology of rivers and lakes
Edited sentence: Excessive use of fertilizers pollutes rivers and lakes.Firstly, intensive farming is sometimes at the expense of environmental considerations, which explains its rejection by some producers and consumers.It usually relies heavily on the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators and pesticides.Mechanized agriculture has become the key to the success of contemporary farming.Pesticides are non selective and thereby kill good insects as well as the those that destroy crops.Removal of buffers to make large fields for maximum efficiency.The use of intensive farming by farmers has the potential to damage the environment in select number of ways:.This limits the natural habitat of some wild creatures and can lead to soil erosion