page_title: Intensive farming
section_title: Terracing
hierarchical_section_title: Intensive farming / Techniques and technologies / Crops / Terracing
caption_attribution_description: العربية: حقول الأرز في مقاطعة يونان الصينية. Português: Campos de arroz na Província de Yunnan, China. Deutsch: Reisterrassen in der chinesischen Provinz Yunnan English: (Honghe Hani Rice Terraces) in Yunnan Province, China. Español: Campos de arróz en la Provincia de Yunnan, China. Français&#160;: Rizières en terrasse des Hani de Honghe dans le Yunnan, en Chine. עברית: טרסות אורז במחוז יונאן שבסין. Русский: Рисовые террасы в провинции Юньнань 日本語: 中国雲南省の棚田 Македонски: Тераси на оризови полиња во кинеската провинција Јунан. Türkçe: Teras pirinç tarlaları.Yunnan Eyaleti, Çin Українська: Рисові тераси в провінції Юньнань, Китай. Tiếng Việt: Ruộng bậc thang ở Vân Nam, Trung Quốc 中文: 中国云南省梯田
context_page_description: Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming and industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per cubic unit of agricultural land area. It is characterized by a low fallow ratio, higher use of inputs such as capital and labour, and higher crop yields per unit land area.
  Most commercial agriculture is intensive in one or more ways. Forms that rely heavily on industrial methods are often called industrial agriculture, which is characterised by innovations designed to increase yield. Techniques include planting multiple crops per year, reducing the frequency of fallow years, and improving cultivars. It also involves increased use of fertilizers, plant growth regulators, and pesticides and mechanised agriculture, controlled by increased and more detailed analysis of growing conditions, including weather, soil, water, weeds, and pests. This system is supported by ongoing innovation in agricultural machinery and farming methods, genetic technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale, logistics, and data collection and analysis technology.
context_section_description: In agriculture, a terrace is a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed as a method of soil conservation to slow or prevent the rapid surface runoff of irrigation water. Often such land is formed into multiple terraces, giving a stepped appearance. The human landscapes of rice cultivation in terraces that follow the natural contours of the escarpments, like contour ploughing, are a classic feature of the island of Bali and the Banaue Rice Terraces in Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines. In Peru, the Inca made use of otherwise unusable slopes by building drystone walls to create terraces.
caption: Terrace rice fields in Yunnan Province, China
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