Extensive Crops

Extensive agriculture is an agricultural production system that maximizes the capacity for full short-term productivity of the soil without the use of chemical products, irrigation, or drainage, but rather, making use of the natural resources present in the place.

It is usually located on large plots of land, in regions with low population density and is characterized by relatively low yields per hectare but which as a whole are acceptable.

It is an agriculture that often allows a certification of "organic farming" when accompanied by the non-use of chemicals, but not all producers appreciate it.

In Europe, the extensive farming zone corresponds to the zones where agriculture preserves greater naturalness, where "agricultural systems with high natural value" have been identified.

Wheat, corn, oats, barley, and rye are examples of extensive crops.