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Anthropology 02 10/05/2000 What are the benefits of intensifying agriculture? (Horticulture to intensive agriculture to mechanized agriculture)? What are the additional costs? Comparing the costs and benefits of a complex mechanized culture to a simple horticulture one can see the great benefits for a society that has developed an intensifying agriculture. The benefi

------------------------------------------------------------------------Bibliography. Also with intensive and mechanized agriculture more people can live within a square mile than horticulture due to that fact of the productivity which they bring. This means less people have to be involved in the production of food, it allows for people to specialize in different fields,(medicine, trading, ect. ts of moving from horticulture to intensive agriculture to mechanized agriculture is that in intensive and mechanized agriculture there is less manual labor. One other problem affiliated with intensive and mechanized agriculture is pesticides which is used to kill all the insects that eat the crops, the problem here is that not all the pesticides get washed off and we are exposed to some levels of pesticide. These benefits of course come with some costs. These costs affiliated with intensifying and mechanizing include pollution ( air, and water), it causes unemployment because now not everyone needs to work in agriculture so there are going to be people unemployed, and with the use of machines we are going to use fossil fuel to operate them which causes air pollution. Animals and machinery are used to achieve more productivity in intensive and mechanized agriculture. Besides these minor costs the benefits of intensive and mechanized agriculture far out pace horticulture.