Sustainable Agriculture

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What is sustainable agriculture?

Sustainable agriculture is a type of farming practices which involves growing crops while that prioritize environmental stability, maintaining the natural resources present along with the viability of the economy. Its major goal is to provide food security while maintaining healthy environments and supporting locals by reduction of pollution an conservation of other resources.


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How does Agroforestry contribute to Sustainability?

First what is agroforestry? Agroforestry is a form of sustainable agricultural practice which involves the growing of trees into various farming systems.
How it contributes to sustainability includes:

  • It helps to withstand different weathers by shade production from trees.
  • It is also another means of income when trees are grown and sold as timbers later.
  • Trees’ roots beneath the soil surface immobilize the soil, thereby preventing leaching an erosion.

What are the Benefits of Organic Farming Methods?

Organic farming methods involves the uses of manures as fertilizers, pesticides, and insecticides in growing crops in the farm. The benefits from this farming method include:

  1. It is cheaper and easier to access.
  2. It reduce the risk of getting the environment polluted by chemicals.
  3. Research has it that crops grown using organic method tend to be enriched with lots of nutrition.
  4. It plays a big role in improving the soil's health and fertility.

Role of Crop Diversity in Sustainable Farming

Availability of different crops and plants on farm used as a result of their phenotypical an genetic features is known as crop diversity; its role in sustainable farming/agriculture includes:

  • It promotes food security when various plants and grown
  • Crop diversity helps in production of different breeds of plants with adequate amount of resilience.
  • Upon growing different crops on the farm and using various fertilizers, the soil's health is also maintained.

Conclusion Sustainable agriculture which includes crop diversity, organic farming methods and agroforestry all make contribution in enhancing a healthy community while farming to produce different crops with resilience.
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Quite a nice one , organic farming methods really improve soil health and enhance good yields , for biodiversity it should be a choice for most farmers due to it core resilient over pathogens and lot more. Thank you for sharing .