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| Sustainable Agriculture |
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| Sustainability means keeping an effort going continuously, or the ability to last out and keep from falling. So sustainable agriculture means successful management of resources for agriculture to satisfy the changing human needs, while maintaining or enhancing the quality of environment and conserving natural resources. |
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| Sustainable agriculture is an agricultural production and distribution system that |
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 Achieves the integration of natural biological cycles and controls |
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 Protects and renews soil fertility and the natural resource base |
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 Optimizes the management and use of on-farm resources |
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 Reduces the use of non-renewable resources and purchased production inputs |
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 Provides an adequate and dependable form of income |
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 Promotes opportunity in family farming and farm communities |
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| Sustainable agriculture can be achieved by adapting: |
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 Mixed farming |
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 Mixed cropping |
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 Crop rotation |
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 Crop selection |
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 Varietal improvement |
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