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Term

extensive farming

Term

Farming system often practised on larger farms, characterised by low levels of inputs per unit area of land; in such situations the stocking rate, the number of livestock units per area, is low.

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Source:

EEA Glossary

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Definition source publication

Adapted from: ETC/CDS. General environmental multilingual thesaurus (GEMET 2000).

Publication year

2000

Definition source URL

http://glossary.eea.europa.eu/EEAGlossary

Organisation

Organisation full name

Adapted from: ETC/CDS

Subjects

Agriculture and Rural Areas

Long definition

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