Match the term with the most appropriate description.?
A. ?a form of industrialized agriculture used primarily in less-developed tropical countries that involves growing cash crops such as bananas, coffee, vegetables, soybeans, sugarcane, and palm oil
B. ?uses heavy equipment along with large amounts of financial capital, fossil fuels, water, commercial inorganic fertilizers, and pesticides to
C. ?combines energy from the sun with the labor of humans and draft animals to produce enough crops for a farm family's survival, with little left over to sell or store as a reserve for hard times
D. ?farmers try to obtain higher crop yields by increasing their inputs of human and draft animal labor, animal manure for fertilizer, and water
E. ?crops are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, synthetic inorganic fertilizers, or genetically engineered seed varieties
A. ?plantation agriculture
B. ?high-input agriculture
C. ?traditional subsistence agriculture
D. ?traditional intensive agriculture
E. ?organic agriculture
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