Title: Unsustainable Agriculture Techniques | Greentumble
Headings: Unsustainable Agriculture Techniques
Unsustainable Agriculture Techniques
Examples of unsustainable techniques used in modern agriculture
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Content: Wasting water
Current agricultural practices are typically inefficient in water use. Problems such as growing high water demand crops, leaky and inefficient irrigation infrastructure, the unsustainable draining of aquifers to produce crops, and water runoff into rivers and other water bodies are a telltale sign that we can improve greatly with how we use water to grow our food. Feeding a grain-based diet to animals that should eat grass
Animals that biologically are meant to eat grass are not as healthy as animals that are being heavily fed on grains like corn and soybeans. It requires significant resources and energy to grow that grain, when such animals should be eating native grass, which is basically free and doesn’t require fossil fuels and irrigation to produce. Agrofuels
Using food crops to produce energy is wrong-headed. It typically takes just as much fossil fuel energy to raise these crops as you get out of them when you burn them as fuel. Only growing a few varieties of crop plants
Because only a few varieties have been grown in commercial agriculture over the last 100 years or so, we are losing a lot of genetic diversity in our crop plants. This is a major problem, as a loss of genetic diversity makes it more difficult for our crops to adapt to changing environmental conditions and diseases. Was this article helpful? We are working hard to improve our content.