Labor-intensive subsistence

I believe Labor-intensive subsistence agriculture is almost same as traditional agriculture, which produces only enough crops or livestock for a farm family¡¦s survival; therefore, they have low yields with intensive labors. This trends cause more lands are destructed and degrade by farming. On the other hand, labor-intensive subsistence agriculture produce less pollutants than industrialized agriculture because they reduce usage of fertilizer and pesticides. The biggest advantages of energy-intensive industrialized agriculture are that they use …

…low-input farming is often more profitable than high input farming because they spend less money on irrigation water, fertilizer, and pesticides; in addition, they reduce use and waste of fossil fuels and waste in irrigation, also they will be slowing population growth. If partial shift to more environmentally sustainable food production, it will be opposed by agribusiness and successful farmers because many consumers are unwilling and unable to pay higher prices for food (Full-cost accounting).