Sustainable agricultural development

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Sustainable agricultural development


If we had a choice in consumption, we would all choose the most natural products that do not contain harmful chemicals or pesticides.

In recent years, we often hear the phrase "sustainable development", this phrase is also used in many different contexts and fields, one of which is "sustainable agricultural development". So how do we understand the development of “sustainable agriculture”?

According to an ecological definition of sustainable agriculture by Professor Stephen R. Gliessman at UCSC, it means “a system that is concerned with and affects food production, farming, balance environmental stability, social relevance, and economic viability among factors, both in breadth and in length (i.e. multiple actors and generations of participants). 

More broadly, sustainable development of agro-ecosystems is when we maintain the natural resource base in which, depend very little on artificial products brought in from outside the ecosystem, manage Diseases and pests through internal regulatory mechanisms, and the ecosystem needs to recover from disturbances (even damage) caused by farming and harvesting.

Simply put, sustainable agriculture is a chain of food, food, crop, and livestock production in which producers use agricultural techniques that help protect the environment, public health, and the environment. Time to treat pets well.

Sustainable agriculture helps us to source healthy food without adversely affecting future generations.

The key to sustainable agriculture is finding a balance between the needs of food production and the preservation of the ecological environment. At the same time, it also promotes economic stability for farmers, helping farmers have a better quality of life. Because agriculture has always played an important role in the world economy, when more than 40% of the world's population works in this industr