Eh Lah Paw
Mike
English 2010
May 3, 2013
Farming is getting harder
The world is becoming really polluted and the pollutions are very bad for our
environment. Climate in the recent years is also changing which have many impacts on the
farming. Things are changing too much in the world: technologies are being developing too
much even in the agriculture world which also effect on the environment. Climate changes make
extreme weathers such as tornado, hurricane, extreme cold in some countries and many others.
Not only that, the earth is also getting hotter than it was before which make drought in many
areas in many countries. Oil reserves also affect the farming. The weather changes, droughts,
and oil reserves are making farming harder. Climate change is the risk and it is the trouble in
agriculture because agriculture relies on weather. Even though new technologies are being
introduced to agriculture, agriculture still depends on the weather. So, we should stop the
climate change as well as we could. There are many ways that every one of us can help in
everyday life. We can have stop weather change individually such as flying less, drive less
because people in developing countries are traveling using technology devices all the time.
Technology is good for agriculture in some ways. Some technology devices are making
the agriculture easier to drag large plowing. They also allow farmers to harvest their plantation
quicker.
Technologies also help with planting seeds.
As there are good things about
technologies in the agriculture, there are also many negative impacts on agriculture with it too.
Agriculture vehicle is one of the impacts on the farm which produce the problems including
safety, economics, and equipment concerns. They are big and they can destroy things a lot.
Safety is very important in the agriculture guidance system. Technology procedures method
such as pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics are the techniques that damage the environment on
the farming.
Most extreme weather such as tornado, hurricane, thunderstorms, and many others are
causing flood whenever they occur. Tornado is the most powerful and the fastest wind that
occur a lots in the United States. Thunderstorms are dangerous and they produce lightning.
These causes affect the livestock on a farm. Farmers usually lived in lower lands in order to get
water easier. But lands are getting flood easier whenever it cause extremes weather. Every year,
farmers in the United States are losing their livestock on a farm by extremes weather. Their
plantations were also damage which does not make them any profit. Many farmers are losing
what they have because of the causing of flood. Flood is also the biggest problem to a farm. In
just one year, farmers in the US Midwest have had their harvests destroyed first by drought and
then by flooding (Terrett). There are many damages of crop by flood in many Asian countries.
Asian country such as Thailand is the world largest rice producer. But, since the country caused
flood very often, farmers do not produce good crops. There is lots of rough rice. Every year,
prices of rice are getting more expensive. According to my personal experience, price of rice
was only $30. Now it cost about $35 to $36. The higher foods prices make the poor become
hungry because Asian rely on rice a lots.
Droughts also make farming harder because it makes many problems to the foods
production. The durations of draught is extending over the season. Droughts affect farmer’s
livelihood a lot. When there are droughts on the lands, farmers will not be able to get good soil.
Lands become drought when there is not enough rainfall. During the times of drought, water
could become polluted that can weaken the development of agricultural and the water can be
really harmful to the plantations. Drought has an impact on the growing of crops. Draught can
also reduce the availabilities of foods that could produce the extreme hunger in the world. With
no good soil, farmers do not have good plantation and their crops become wither a lot by the
dryness. Drought do not only caused the problems to the plantations and farming, it also drawn
back the economy too. It also affects the nearby communities and the surrounding environment.
The impact of draught on a community is the effect on the water supply.
In many countries in Southeast Asia, drought mostly affects rice production in many rice
growing areas. The rising of drought is losses the economic in the country. It has lot of impact
on farmer households.
Effected countries include China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand,
Myanmar and Lao (Dearing). The most effecting drought areas in Asia is mostly found in
eastern India which make families with less income have difficulties of share. During the times
of drought, many farmers fail on their agriculture and they could even fall into a poor
community. China is also one of the countries that suffer from the common and harsh disaster
every day. It often incurs climates disaster such as droughts, floods, and extreme cold are the
main failure to agriculture that farmers in China faces. There are many different kinds of
drought in many areas in China. Farmers in China not only face extreme weather such as
drought as many other countries do. They also face extreme cold weather. The extreme cold
could cause win, rain, and frosts, causing most damage on crops.
Every year, many farmers are facing these conditions and losing their belonging
according to the weather changes. Most farmers not only lose their profit to the occurrences of
the extreme weather. They lose the profits of their plantation because of the drought, extreme
cold and hard winds. They are also losing on planting because of the uses of technologies
techniques too. Technologies help achieve farming in developing countries, but it does not help
an in small countries. The using of technologies method harm farmers a lot because farmers will
not meet the requirement and get anything back from what they had spent for their plantation.
They will not be able to fulfill their families too. Under all these conditions, things that make
climate change include human activities that change the weather which harm some people in
many different reasons. The actions such as burning fossil fuels are one of the human activities
that increase the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide which is not a natural gas. The activities of this
cause climate change include global warming, loss of sea ice, glacier retreat, more intense heat
waves, stronger hurricanes, and more droughts (climatechange). It also causes the soil. It
reduces fertilizers which make farming harder to grow crops. Burning fossil also improve
weighty amount of carbon dioxide that is really threatening on the climate change. Human
activities such as this also produce air pollution that effect on human health. Although it gets
less attention these days, combustion also emits volumes of pollutants, which can cause a variety
of illnesses (Fischetti).
Nigeria was a major agricultural exporter before oil was discovered off its coast in the
1970s (Hecht). It was the best agriculture country, but the plantations were neglected after oil
was discovered.
Nigeria developed into the world’s eighth-largest oil producing country
(Hecht). The activities have an impact on farms that make harm to the agriculture. Nigeria big
farms and it plantations were being neglected a lot since Nigeria country had become the oil
producing country. Nigeria land had problem according to the oil production until it cannot feed
it people enough. Many Nigeria’s agricultural production comes from ineffective small farms in
recent years. Most farmers in Nigeria have little fertilizers or not even have any access to
fertilizers. Many Nigeria’s farmers do not even grow enough food to feed their own families at
all. Now, many farmers in Nigeria own just a small farm and do not even have good fertilizers
for their plantation. Many people have been suffering a lot from food. Nigeria has become one
of the world’s biggest importers of food staples (Hecht).
Burning fossil fuels does not only affect farming, it also causes air pollution in many
different ways that effect human health. Carbon dioxide that comes from the activities of
burning the fossil fuels is going out into the atmosphere and it consideration is growing.
Combustion of coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels in the presence of insufficient supply of
oxygen liberates carbon monoxide and unburnt hydrocarbons (Khanna). The atmosphere is
becoming very pollutants because of the burning fossil fuels activities. Air pollutions are
increasing every time even by transportation.
Air pollution is one of the most serious
environmental threats to urban populations (Cohen 2005). Air pollutions lead the environmental
threat to the health of the people in many different areas. It causes strong sicknesses such as
lung and heart diseases that can even harm people to death.
Because of the farming getting harder, the global food crisis is starting to begin. 1 billion
people are already going hungry and a further 2 billion people will be affected (Carrington). The
reason why global food crisis began is because of the impact of the plantation that weather
disruption and the sharply risen of food prices. In many countries, farming and plantation were
being neglected by many different kinds of extreme weathers that make the food production
hard. When a country had a bad harvest time, food prices are increasing. Many children and
adult died from hunger especially the poor and some farmers.
Every human action that has an impact on the weather change includes transportation.
Today transportations are very different from the day back. Transportation techniques such as
vehicle, plane, train, and many others are impacts on the weather change too. But there are ways
that we can help stop climate change that impact by transportations, especially the developing
countries. To help stop climate change, it is not going to be easy. But as individuals, each of us
can lower our carbon dioxide emissions through actions like flying less and improving the
energy efficiency of our cars and homes (COTAP). Transportations such as vehicle also have an
impact on weather change. All kinds of human action such as these are having an impact on
climate changes that make farming hard. We can help by carpooling in everyday life; ride a bike
if the weather is good. To help stop climate change by doing these things is not impossible for
anyone. But, we could try. Also, if a company that burning fossil fuels help us along, it will be
very helpful. Eventually, farmers in many different areas in different country could gain good
fertilizers back. If good crops are able to produce more, food will be more available in the world
and we may not be having global food crisis any more.
Works Cited
Carrington, Damian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/13/global-food-crisisheatwaves-crops. 13 January 2012.
COTAP. http://cotap.org/stop-climate-change/?gclid=CJSL57qk6bYCFYx_QgodKRAADg. n.d.
Dearing, Stephanie. http://digitaljournal.com/article/288665. 7 March 2010.
Fischetti, Mark. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=graphic-science-health-care-burdenof-fossil-fuels. 31 August 2011.
Hecht, David. 2009.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/eode/eode-air-quality-impact.pdf. n.d.
Khanna, Bhishm. http://www.preservearticles.com/201012302071/fossil-fuels-causes-air-pollution.html.
n.d.
Terrett, John. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/04/201342671625889195.html. 26 APril
2013.