Environment
Impacts
of
Agriculture
on
1. Degradation of Land:
5 Major
Impacts
of
Agriculture
2. DEFORESTATION:
3. BIODIVERSITY:
4. PEST PROBLEM:
5. DISPOSAL OF INDUSTRIAL &
AGRICULTURAL WASTES
1. Degradation of Land:
The degradation of land is one of major concern and danger for
sustainable agriculture. At the same time, intense agriculture and
increasing dependence on irrigation have resulted in salinity,
alkalinity and water scarcity
Key Points:
(a) Imbalance and Deficiency of soil nutrients due to intensive cultivation.
(c) Decline in the organic structure in the soil.
(d) Deforestation and overgrazing causing wind erosion.
(e) Decline in underground water due to over exhaustion for high water using crops,
increase in cropping intensity, and increase in cultivated area etc.
(f) Polluting the water with high use of nitrogen
2. Deforestation
Deforestation is the permanent and intentional clearing of
forested land by humans, often for agricultural expansion,
timber harvesting for fuel or building materials, mining, and
human settlement.
Key Impacts of :
(a)Loss of Habitat of forest
(b)Increased Greenhouse Gases
(c)disturb the Water system of the Atmosphere
(d)leads to Soil Erosion and Flooding
3. Biodiversity
Agricultural activities such as tillage, drainage, intercropping,
rotation, grazing and extensive usage of pesticides and
fertilizers have significant implications for wild species of flora
and fauna. Species capable of adapting to the agricultural
landscape may be limited directly by the disturbance regimes of
grazing, planting and harvesting, and indirectly by the
abundance of plant and insect foods available.
4. Pest Problem:
To get the maximum and feed the large population, forcing to
shift the crop pattern, increase in area under irrigation and higher
cropping intensity. By this the pest problem become very severe
that leads to use of pesticides.
Key Impacts of :
(a)lack natural control of pest due to decrease in predatory birds and insects
population
(b)direct effect on human and animal health
(c)health hazards due to residual of pesticides in food
(d)Pollute the natural resource like water, air
5. Disposal of Industrial & Agricultural
Wastes
Waste materials are either usable or unusable products left behind
after production, are of different kinds and come from various
sources. Even The biodegradable wastes are being focused for
utilizing its nutritional and desirable qualities and made into
various usable products. But stillWaste as in general is causing
environmental pollution on earth surface, water, and air. Among
the various sources agricultural crop residues, used pesticides,
insecticides, fertilizers, and other indiscriminate use of chemicals
causing environmental threats and already translocated through
food chain causing several human diseases.
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