what are the benefits and limitations of modern and traditional farming methods?

Modern farming methods:
BENEFITS:The "green revolution" brought greater output per acre. There are 700 million people alive today because the increase in crop yield; the green revolution was a sysyem of using enhanced seeds that were inundated with fertilizers, and water was made available through well drilling.
LIMITATIONS: This should be stated as the 'long-term destuctive effects of over farming'. What the farmers did was plant crops in a "monoculture", meaning they planted only one kind of crop. Acres and acres of the same crop. Rice, corn, and wheat depleted the organic nutrition from the soil. The soil was then over-fertilized and over watered. This in turn salinated the soil and poisoned the underground water supply.
   The end-result is that the population is going up much faster than we can produce food....starvation.
Traditional farming methods:
BENEFITS: Traditional farming grew many different crops per acre, which replenished the soil, and prevented a reliance on one type of 'staple' crop. Many people were needed to farm, so there was more people at work. The farmers and society in general were not reliant upon synthetically produced planting which was healthier. Natural.
LIMITATIONS: Traditional farming was more reliant upon rainfall to water the plants, so dought was a common issue. The quantity of food produced was less per acre, which, when combined with drought, caused starvation. The quality of the food produced was lower than the quality of today.

In the modern agriculture we believe that everything can be controlled. The traditional methods are developed in conjunction with nature.

The modern agriculture makes farmer spend a lot of money, whereas the traditional methods depended largely on physical inputs.

The traditional methods could make the farmers rich if and when ho got bumper crop, whereas the profitability deminishes beyond critical productivity in the modern methods.

Traditional methods made judicial use of the energy harvested from sun for bringing up the total farming ecosystem. Modern methods do not talk about farming ecosystem. It is just profit from each single crop.

In short modern methods are knowledge based complex technologies, and the traditional methods is all wisdom.