This document discusses some of the key issues with modern agriculture practices and their lack of sustainability. It notes that modern agriculture has led to increased costs and dependence on chemical inputs which are contaminating water sources and soil. Pesticide use in particular has led to resistance in insects requiring higher doses, pollution, and killing of predators. Monoculture practices have reduced biodiversity and reliance on specific seed varieties has increased genetic erosion and vulnerability to pests and disease. While modern techniques have increased short term yields, they have decreased the long term stability and sustainability of agricultural systems by degrading soils and environments. The document advocates applying ecological theory and agroecology principles to farm management to produce economically viable crops while preserving environmental integrity.

1. How is our agriculture today?

2. Todays growing awareness:
 Increased cost of and dependence on external
inputs of chemical and energy
 Decline in soil productivity, from soil erosion
and nutrient loss
 Contamination of surface and groundwater
from fertilizer and pesticides
 Hazards to human and animal health and to
food quality from agrochemicals

3. How is our agriculture today?
● Application of inorganic fertilizer
 Soil Low efficiency
 structure degradation
 Micro nutrient depletion
 Limitation of natural resources
 Expensive prices
 Pollution

5. ● Application of pesticides
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easier ways to suppress insect and
often be subsided and promoted
more resistance insects
need higher dosages every time
killing the predators as well
pollution (soil, water, air)
entering food chains
disease

6.  Superior seed
 Providing higher productivity
 More responsive to inorganic fertilizers
 Genetic erosion
 Vulnerable to insect and diseases

7. Why modern agriculture is not
sustainable?
 In modern agriculture development, ‘raising
the production’ is often given the primary
attention
When the upper limit of productivity is
exceeded, the agroecosystem may
degrade and collapse

8. Why modern agriculture is not
sustainable?
 Modern agriculture implies the simplification of
biodiversity and reaches an extreme from
monoculture
in crop
need high agrochemical inputs
boosting yield result in a number of
undesirable environmental
and social cost

9. Modern agroecosystems are unstable, having
problems such as pest, soil
pollution of water
degradation
system
and
 The introduction of new technology
has greatly increased short term
productivity,
may lowered
sustainability
but in the long term
the stability,
and equity of the total
agricultural system

10. Challenge of producing an economically
viable crop, while preserving the integrity
local, regional and global environment:
of
need the applicaton of ecological theory
to farm management
(Agroecology is a scientific methodology
which regards agroecosystem)