Abstract
Sustainable agricultural systems aim to use technologies that do not cause any adverse effects to environmental goods and services. To solve the problem of food insecurity due to the increasing global population, modern agricultural practices are used by food cultivators in many countries to maximum their crop yields. Modern agricultural practices use mechanized equipment for irrigation, tilling and harvesting along with hybrid seeds. However, they also use synthetic or chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides that deplete soil fertility and are harmful to the environment. Modern farming has evolved with technology such that irrigation is done mainly through tube wells, sprinklers and drip** systems, which has caused decreases of the water table. In addition, modern technologies are highly mechanized and lead to increased use of non-renewable sources of energy. Modern agricultural practices are responsible for genetic erosion and the extinction of germplasms of crop seeds, which leads to less variability and a loss of indigenous varieties of crop plants. Sometimes, genetically modified food can create health issues, causing fear among consumers with regard to such food and its products. It is necessary to create awareness about healthy soils that produce healthy food systems, which is only possible through the use of sustainable agricultural practices. Fertile soils can be maintained by supplementing essential nutrients, water, oxygen and root support, which is essential for allowing food-producing plants to grow and flourish. This chapter discusses recent developments in crop production from sustainable agricultural practices that maintain healthy agricultural soil conditions.
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Abbreviations
- AfDE:
-
African Dark Earths
- AS:
-
Adjacent soils
- BIPM:
-
Biointensive integrated pest management practices
- CRC:
-
Conventional rice-crab coculture
- FAI:
-
Food Animal Initiative
- FM:
-
Fish monoculture
- GDP:
-
Gross domestic product
- GHGs:
-
Greenhouse gases
- GM:
-
Genetically modified
- IPM:
-
Integrated pest management
- MDGs:
-
Millennium Development Goals
- MG:
-
Marigold
- MMT:
-
Million metric tons
- MY:
-
Marketing year
- NEP:
-
New Economic Policy
- ORC:
-
Organic rice-crab coculture
- PyC:
-
Pyrogenic carbon
- RC:
-
Rice-crab coculture
- RF:
-
Rice–fish co-culture system
- RM:
-
Rice monoculture
- SDGs:
-
Sustainable Development Goals
- SH:
-
Sunn hemp
- SPAD:
-
Soil-plant analysis development
- TaASN:
-
Triticum aestivum asparagine synthetase
- VGGTs:
-
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests
- WSPA:
-
World Society for the Protection of Animals
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Srivastava, R.K. (2020). Influence of Sustainable Agricultural Practices on Healthy Food Cultivation. In: Gothandam, K., Ranjan, S., Dasgupta, N., Lichtfouse, E. (eds) Environmental Biotechnology Vol. 2. Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World, vol 45. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38196-7_5
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