Here is the story: Feeding the world is a big challenge. Everyone should get involved. It is our responsibility. The world's population is increasing every day, and every person on Earth needs food to survive.

To help meet this growing need for food, people have turned to a special method of farming called intensive farming, which is done on very large farms. Crops are grown in huge fields and are then sold. Intensive farming produces food more quickly and more cheaply than ever before. It is the best way to meet the challenge of feeding our world.

With a quick look around a farm using intensive farming you would notice there are not many workers. These large farms are mechanized. People and work animals have been replaced by modern machines. These machines do the jobs of a team of workers. Farmers use sophisticated machines such as combine harvesters. Farming is easier because these large machines can easily cover a large area of geography in a shorter amount of time. Many of the machines have more than one purpose. For example, one machine can harvest, separate, and load crops. This saves farmers time and money. In intensive farming, a large amount of food is grown by a few people. This makes the food less expensive than food sold by smaller farms. Lower prices mean more people can afford it.

With intensive farming, a field that once grew food for ten people can now feed one hundred. This scientific data points out that intensive farming is a valuable method of producing food.

Farmers on these large farms often use new varieties of plants. Scientists have developed plants that can produce more food. One example is corn plants that grow more corncobs. Some plants have been created so that they do not spoil quickly. These plants can be shipped long distances and stay fresh. As plants grow, they get the materials they need from the soil. This happens naturally over time. But this is too slow for large farms. Scientists developed fertilizers that have the correct amount of chemical nutrients for plants to grow well. This allows farmers to plant the same crop every year in the same soil. Scientists also generated new ideas that help farmers protect their crops. They developed a wide variety of pesticides that kill insects that eat crops. Herbicides were also developed to kill weeds growing among the crops. These advances in science help meet the goal of growing more food. There are many people to feed on our planet. There will be even more people in the future. Thanks to intensive farming, more affordable food is available. Intensive farming is the best way to be certain that each and every person gets enough to eat.