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Extensive commercial farming is a system of agriculture in which relatively small amounts of capital or labour investment are applied to relatively large areas of land.
At times, the land is left fallow to regain its fertility.
(i) This commercial grain cultivation is practiced in the interior parts of semi-arid lands of the midlatitudes.
(ii) The size of the farm is very large, therefore entire operations of cultivation from ploughing to harvesting are mechanized.
(iii) There is low yield per acre but high yield per person.
(iv) It usually occurs at the margin of the agricultural system, at a great distance from market or on poor land of limited potential and is usually practiced in the tarai regions of southern Nepal.
(v) Wheat is the principal crop, though other crops like corn, barley, oats and rye are also grown.
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