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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 benefits of moving from horticulture to intensive agriculture to mechanized agriculture is that in intensive and mechanized agriculture there is less manual labor. This means …

…we are going to use fossil fuel to operate them which causes air pollution. 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. Besides these minor costs the benefits of intensive and mechanized agriculture far out pace horticulture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**