what do you mean by sustainable agriculture?
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Question by manveen k: what do you mean by sustainable agriculture?
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Tangible growth products that can be ingested by humans, preferably without poo on them.
Timothy C
September 11, 2012 at 8:55 pm
This link may be able to help answer your question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_agriculture
Jackie W
September 11, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Instead of relying on Merck pharmaceutical to supply us with their genetically engineered seeds that don’t reseed themselves so that our agriculture depends upon them….
It means, we grow our own crops, gather our own seeds and re grow what is needed next year to feed each other every year. Thus, we are sustained by the crops we choose to grow, which was the old way of farming.
Laura J
September 11, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Crops need nutrients. If the land is not replenished, the crops have no nutritional value, and eventually, the land becomes barren, unable to produce crops.
The extreme example is slash and burn farming in the Amazon. The soil is good for only one crop, so the farmer moves to a different plot, and cuts old growth forest, to grow another crop. The not so extreme, is soft wood harvesting in British Colombia. Cutting old growth with replanting that will take hundreds of years to replace the devastation to the ecosystem.
Ed
September 11, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Sustainable agriculture is defined as “agriculture with minimum degradation of the environment.” Agriculture today has been made dependent on chemicals, pesticides and insecticides. These have a harmful effect on the environment like loss in the fertility of soil, ground water contamination, etc.
Sustainable agriculture uses eco-friendly pesticides instead. These do no cause any degradation. Sustainable agriculture also aims at keeping the prouce of agriculture the same.
Soil management and use of scientific methods are essential parts of sustainable agriculture.
It is similar to organic farming.
For e.g. onion water is sprayed on plants to prevent them from diseases.
Hope this is of some help.
Literature Lover
September 11, 2012 at 10:03 pm