When farmers grow crops and rear animals for economic activity, it becomes Commercial Farming. Due to the need for ahigh amount of output, farmers cultivate larger areas of land, with heavy use of machinery. Commercial Farming has three main categories:

Commercial grain farming– Just as the name suggests, in this method, farmers grow grains and trade them in the market. Wheat and maize are the most common crops of commercial grain farming. Farmers of Asia, Europe, temperate grasslands of North America generally practice this type of farming.

Plantation farming– Plantation farming is a mix of agriculture and industry and is practised across a vast area of land. Plantation owners usually grow a single crop like banana, coffee, tea etc. in a plantation and use technological support to process the crop on the farm itself or a factory attached to it. The end product also works as a raw material for industries. For example, the rubber industry uses the rubber produced from its plantation as raw material.