• Question: what is your view on extensive farming

    Asked by lewis to Min, Marcello, Katie, Israel, Dheeraj, Aoife on 13 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Katie Starsmore

      Katie Starsmore answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      What do you mean by extensive farming?

    • Photo: Marcello Valente

      Marcello Valente answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      While it’s not a perfect system, extensive farming is a very science and technological savy system that produce food with a low price but still keeps the food on a good quality level.

    • Photo: Aoife McHugh

      Aoife McHugh answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      Although I work in Teagasc, I work in the food bioscience department and I actually don’t know much about farming. Personally, I think we need to produce more food to feed the world, and extensive farming is a way to do this, but we have to be careful not to disrupt the environment. I think we need make better use of the food we do produce and waste less food. What do you know about extensive farming? Can you tell me more about it.

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