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What (who) is -intensive - definition

ECONOMIC CONCEPT
Capital intensive; Capital-intensive

-intensive      
-intensive combines with nouns to form adjectives which indicate that an industry or activity involves the use of a lot of a particular thing.
...the development of capital-intensive farming.
COMB in ADJ
Annals of Intensive Care         
JOURNAL
Ann. Intensive Care; Ann Intensive Care
The Annals of Intensive Care is a monthly open access peer-reviewed medical journal covering intensive care medicine. It was established in 2011.
Intensive farming         
  • Early 20th-century image of a tractor ploughing an [[alfalfa]] field
  • enclosed]] [[pasture]] eating grass through wire fence
  • corn]] and [[sorghum]] are green (sorghum may be slightly paler). [[Wheat]] is brilliant gold. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or have lain in fallow for the year.
  • A commercial chicken house raising broiler pullets for meat
  • Intensively farmed pigs
  • paddocks]], each grazed in turn for a short period and then rested
  • center-pivot]] design
  • 10,000 BCE]]–2000 CE
  • Terrace rice fields in [[Yunnan Province]], China
VARIOUS TYPES OF AGRICULTURE THAT INVOLVE HIGHER LEVELS OF INPUT AND OUTPUT PER UNIT OF AGRICULTURAL LAND AREA
Intensive agriculture; Intensive cultivation; Commercial agriculture; Industrialized agriculture; Intensive cropping; Industrial farm; Conventional agriculture; Conventional farming; Plant water use efficiency; Commercial farm; Intensive type of farming; Commercial farming; Market agriculture; Intensively farmed; Agroindustry; High-input agriculture; Agriculture industry; Sustainable intensification; Intensive Farming; Intensive farm; Industrialized farming; Livestock production; Pasture intensification; Sustainable intensive farming; Agricultural intensification; Conventional (agriculture); Commercial grower
Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming (as opposed to extensive farming), conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per unit of agricultural land area. It is characterized by a low fallow ratio, higher use of inputs such as capital and labour, and higher crop yields per unit land area.

Wikipedia

Capital intensity

Capital intensity is the amount of fixed or real capital present in relation to other factors of production, especially labor. At the level of either a production process or the aggregate economy, it may be estimated by the capital to labor ratio, such as from the points along a capital/labor isoquant.

Examples of use of -intensive
1. Exporters of skill– and research– and–development–intensive products will benefit more than those more reliant on labour–intensive production.
2. Only regular, intensive activities were beneficial.
3. Intensive negotiations are indeed already under way.
4. "It‘s artifact–intensive. . . . There‘s no interactive.
5. CALDERON (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): We are labor–intensive.