Sustainable Agriculture

Crop yields remaining stagnant, pesticides polluting the eco-systems, increasing cost of fertilizers, reducing soil fertility, imbalance in host - parasite and predator - parasite relationships have pushed agriculture into dangerous mode. Scientists have looked back into the technologies evolved and used to increase the crop yields. Long term projections have indicated that agriculture is pushing itself towards stagnation with severe damage to eco-systems.

Hence, in recent years a concept of sustainable agriculture is developed in order to ensure that the agro-eco-systems are stabilized and sustained crop yields are assured on long term basis.

Sustainable agriculture refers to agriculture - where the agro-eco-systems function on self sustaining basis of nutrient supply and crop protection in order to stabilize the crop yields.

Sustainable agriculture involves practices such as organic farming, biological and natural control of pests, emphasis of watershed approach to conserve the soil and water, buildup of microflora in close harmony with beneficial soil - inhabitants and complete desisting the use of synthetic chemicals.

It is sustainable agriculture - which ensures pollution free food production and which ensures continuation of agriculture with least damage to eco-system.