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Sustainable Development in Agriculture by Revitalization of PGPR
Published in Ram Naresh Bharagava, Sandhya Mishra, Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale, Rijuta Ganesh Saratale, Luiz Fernando Romanholo Ferreira, Bioremediation, 2022
Nandkishor More, Anjali Verma, Ram Naresh Bharagava, Arun S Kharat, Rajnish Gautam, Dimuth Navaratna
As inoculants, PGPR are an essential and large component of biofertilizers technology to improve the productivity of agricultural systems in the long run. Great promise has been shown by many PGPR, which can play very critical roles in maintaining the sustainability of agro-ecosystems and can act as potential inoculants for agriculture uses and environmental protection. Presently, the use of PGPR is poor despite numerous reports on their good performance under laboratory conditions. Sustainable agriculture is a type of agriculture that focuses on producing livestock and long-term crops while having least effects on the environment. This type of agriculture tries to find a good balance within the environment between the need for food production and the preservation of the ecological system. There are many goals associated with the production of food – sustainable agriculture, reduction in the use of fertilizers, conservation of water and pesticides and promotion of biodiversity in crops grown in the ecosystem.
Sustainable Agriculture: Social Aspects
Published in Yeqiao Wang, Landscape and Land Capacity, 2020
It is widely agreed that sustainable agriculture is intrinsically a joint social and ecological construct. Thus, for example, Ikerd[1] stresses the “anthropocentric” as well as “ecocentric” nature of agricultural sustainability, noting that the essence of sustainable agriculture is that “we (in sustainable agriculture) are concerned about sustaining agriculture for the benefit of humans, both now and into the indefinite future.” Sustainable agriculture is an agriculture that is “ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially responsible.”[2] Allen similarly emphasizes that a conception of sustainable agriculture that fails to recognize the role of people, social actors, social institutions, and social movements is a limited one.[3]
Food
Published in John C. Ayers, Sustainability, 2017
To sustainably achieve high crop yields, farmers must use methods that promote thick, nutrient-rich soils and supply abundant but not excessive water to plants, all while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and any chemicals that might have negative environmental impacts. Sustainable agriculture methods include conservation tillage, use of cover crops, maintenance of high crop and genetic diversity, crop rotation, intercropping, use of best practices for water conservation and for maintaining water quality, use of natural fertilizers (compost, animal manure, green manure), precision application technologies, integrated pest management, long-term use of biochar, and genetic improvement of livestock and crops through traditional breeding and genetic engineering (Committee on Twenty-First Century Systems Agriculture and National Research Council 2010). Holistic management is a sustainable approach to resource management in general and agricultural systems in particular. Here we look at some of these practices in more detail.
Enrichment of primary macronutrients in biochar for sustainable agriculture: A review
Published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2022
Adnan Asad Karim, Manish Kumar, Ekta Singh, Aman Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Arati Ray, Nabin Kumar Dhal
Sustainable agriculture seeks development and implementation of different agricultural management strategies to alleviate detrimental effects of intensified land use. In recent years, extensive research focused on efficient utilization of various natural and synthetic fertilizers for the sustainable agriculture. These fertilizers are extensively utilized to enhance the soil fertility and crop productivity (Semida et al., 2019). Synthetic fertilizers contains nutrients (nitrogen-N, phosphorus-P, potassium-K) in high quantity and water soluble forms, therefore widely used in soils compared to manures, and organic fertilizers (Olsen, 1978; Vanlauwe et al., 2010). However, continuous and overuse of synthetic fertilizers (specifically superphosphate) resulted in accumulation of toxic heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, As, and Mn) in soils and crops, posing health risks to humans (Gimeno-Garcia et al., 1996; Kelepertzis, 2014; Lin et al. 2019; Modaibsb & Al‐Sewailem, 1999). Therefore, intensive farming practices with sole dependency on conventional fertilizers are generally unfavorable and costly for soil quality and ecosystem (Ding et al., 2016; Karer et al., 2015). The use of eco-friendly approach to improve fertility of the soil is therefore imperative (Inyang et al., 2016; Ok et al., 2015).
GEOEssential – mainstreaming workflows from data sources to environment policy indicators with essential variables
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
Anthony Lehmann, Stefano Nativi, Paolo Mazzetti, Joan Maso, Ivette Serral, Daniel Spengler, Aidin Niamir, Ian McCallum, Pierre Lacroix, Petros Patias, Denisa Rodila, Nicolas Ray, Grégory Giuliani
The Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) is fixing the objectives for Europe of a multi-functional agriculture of about 11 million farms and 22 million people active in this domain. With its agricultural resources, the European continent can and must play a key role in ensuring food security. Farmers have a dual challenge to produce food while preserving nature and the ecosystem functions. Sustainable agriculture is essential for our food production and for our quality of life – today, tomorrow and for future generations. Agriculture is being monitored with different sets of indicators (EC 2015).