Contract and corporate farming are some of the recent initiatives towards further reforms in agriculture leading towards more and more intensification in agriculture.
The concept of mono cropping is taking a lead which is primarily intended to maximise production both in agriculture as well as industries. Agriculture in twenty first century is largely influenced by industries. The capitalist growth in agriculture has serious consequence to break traditional agrarian social structure, the relation between tenancy and landlord relations, among large scale, medium scale and small scale farmers, between peasants and capitalist, etc. Agriculture and industry influence each other and they together influence environment as well. Both large and small industries depend on agriculture for supply of raw materials. Thus there is transformation in agriculture. Cash crop production is the result of industrial influence. For example, cotton crops, gherkin, etc. as raw materials is grown to meet industrial need Thus, intensification is inevitable for supply in large scale for industrial growth. The high tech application in agriculture is seen in many pockets lead to massive transformation of agriculture from a low intensive to high intensive one. The gross application of technology in agriculture influences environment and imbalances climate at both local and global level. Netting and David Cleveland
have criticised the mode of production in modern agriculture to balancing the planet and sustainable growth in agriculture that can pose threat to the survival of mankind. The alternative approach to modern agriculture is justified in the context when agriculture shows diminishing returns and gradually deepening the crisis of ecological balance and carrying capacity of the soil.