Title: What Is Over-Cultivation? | Greentumble
Headings: What Is Over-Cultivation?
What Is Over-Cultivation?
Why does over-cultivation happen?
Negative impacts of over-cultivation
Ways to reverse the effects of over-cultivation
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Content: It is also a problem that persists, with a reported loss rate of about 10 million hectares per year. What is more, as agricultural land becomes degraded, land managers move to other pieces of land which means that we are degrading the productive land we have left and abandoning large chunks of land that we have left unusable [2] . Why does over-cultivation happen? Over the last 5 decades, increases in agricultural productivity have made it possible to produce more crops on the same amount of land. And that helped tremendously secure food for an increasing population. It is important to remember that at the time many regions of the world were recovering from years of war, particularly in Europe. So, access to food was a priority for governments as they were rebuilding their nations. Unfortunately, however, today’s intensive farming techniques have come to require ever increasing inputs of resources such as fertilizers and pesticides to yield ever increasing produce. The problem with this is that this is not a linear relationship. In other words, there comes a time when no matter how much resources and capital is poured into the land in the form of water or fertilizer, it will not yield more crops;