{"id":148583,"date":"2021-11-24T20:09:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=148583"},"modified":"2021-11-24T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:39:16","slug":"sustainable-agriculture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sustainable-agriculture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>During the recent climate summit in Glasgow, India did not ratify &#8220;<strong>Action Agenda on Sustainable Agriculture&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India stated that it already has a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-mission-for-sustainable-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture<\/a>&#8221; as part of its broad &#8220;National Action Plan on Climate Change&#8221;. However, these initiatives have failed to improve the condition of Indian agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the issues in Indian agricultural practices?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission from the farm sector is increasing constantly.<\/p>\n<p>-India overtook China in 2011 to become the world\u2019s top polluter in terms of agricultural emissions.<\/p>\n<p>-Emission from the two main methane-emitting activities \u2014 paddy cultivation and livestock rearing \u2014 is also increasing continuously.<\/p>\n<p>Environment-friendly practices, like organic farming or zero-budget cultivation, are not able to match the massive and rapidly growing demand for farm products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the solution?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India needs &#8220;sustainable agriculture&#8221; whereby technologies and agronomic practices are efficient, least injurious to the environment, and yet profitable for farmers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the means to execute such a sustainable practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mixing<\/strong> the <strong>modern<\/strong> productivity-boosting <strong>technologies<\/strong>, including environment-resilient crop varieties and animal breeds, <strong>with traditional knowledge<\/strong> and norms, that promote living in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n<p>Widely practiced mono-cropping and unchanged cropping cycles should be replaced with <strong>diversified farming.\u00a0<\/strong> It should include a judicious mix of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, fisheries, and agroforestry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Land-restoring and fertility-enhancing crops<\/strong> like legumes and quick-growing vegetation should be included in the cropping sequence. It will\u00a0improve soil&#8217;s physical, chemical, and biological health.<\/p>\n<p>Physical churning of soil needs to be avoided or minimized. Novel concepts like conservative agriculture involving <strong>zero or minimum tillage<\/strong> and direct seeding of crops can help to do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mixing manures<\/strong>-Greater use of farmyard manure in combination with chemical fertilizers.<\/p>\n<p>-Placement of fertilizers at the right depth near the plant roots and rational use of pesticides can help in promoting sustainable farming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Integrated disease and pest management,<\/strong> involving the planting of disease-resistant crop varieties and deployment of natural predators of pests.<\/p>\n<p>Promotion of rainwater harvesting and <strong>economical use of water<\/strong> through systems like drip and sprinkler irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>Practices like <strong>stubble burning need to be forbidden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Sustainable agriculture<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>Business Standard<\/strong> on 23 November 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: During the recent climate summit in Glasgow, India did not ratify &#8220;Action Agenda on Sustainable Agriculture&#8221;. India stated that it already has a &#8220;National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture&#8221; as part of its broad &#8220;National Action Plan on Climate Change&#8221;. However, these initiatives have failed to improve the condition of Indian agriculture. What are the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sustainable-agriculture-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sustainable agriculture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-148583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}