How to ensure sustainable agriculture in Pakistan?
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Sustainable agriculture depends on a whole-system approach whose overall goal is the continuing health of the land and people. Therefore it concentrates on long term solutions to problems instead of short term treatment of symptoms.
There are several important constraints to sustainable agriculture and causing low productivity. They include soil degradation (soil salinity, alkalinity, erosion and soil fertility depletion), depletion of water resources, mismanagement of irrigation systems, the distribution of the land holdings and poor farming practices.
The use of farm inputs, particularly of fertilizers, is inadequate and inefficient. Farm energy use is low. The availability of quality seed is limited. Agricultural research is lagging behind the new challenges. Agricultural extension services are not tuned to modern technology.
The flow of information from research to farmers is inadequate. Coordination between policy, research, extension and farmers could be improved. Disbursement of agricultural credit amounts to over Rs.50 billion per annum, but is less than the requirements and is not reaching small farmers.
sparks9653
April 1, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Perhaps the following reference about sustainable agriculture practices in Pakistan can help you:
http://www.pakissan.com/english/allabout/farminputs/fertilizers/sustainable.agriculture.and.fertilizer.shtml
P.S.
Sparks9653, cite the reference, don’t claim/steal the answer as yours. Fail.
cbsteh
April 1, 2012 at 12:31 pm
by turning all the terrorists into farmers
Michael Hepburn
April 1, 2012 at 1:25 pm