describe the role of industries in the development of agriculture
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Humans survive on seeds, either directly or feeding them to livestock to produce meat, milk, and eggs. Modern cultures depend on crop cultivation. We employ sunlight, air, water, soil, and seed; battle weather, weeds, and insects; and then we harvest, necessarily hauling off nutrients from the soil. Farming sustainably is undoubtedly a challenge.
Solutions fall into several categories: limit land area cultivated, preserve arable land, decrease resource inputs, improve input utilization, control pests, reduce food waste, improve nutritional value, and alter human consumption habits, all while maintaining economic viability. How should we think about achieving this?
Public discourse tends to be rather binary. The blunt concepts of conventional versus organic are often incorrectly conflated with issues of scale, and we have become enamored of a belief system about local/organic which has become a status symbol for the millennial generation. We consequently tend to focus on an overly narrow question: What is the one agricultural production system we can choose now and implement everywhere, under all circumstances, that will be sustainable forever?
The reality is that agriculture varies widely. A system that works on an organic farm in Vermont will not work for the dry-land farmer in Colorado, let alone a banana plantation. Techniques we associate with organic farming- cover crops for example- are perfectly applicable to conventional agriculture, and conservation tillage is best implemented in herbicide tolerant systems. Nature keeps changing around us. At large scale, we have climate change. On a smaller scale, control of weeds and insects inevitably selects for resistance and opens niches for alternative threats. We have to find a way to keep producing in harmony with a changing environment. So if you want to think sustainably about sustainability- don’t think about unitary decisions- think about a toolbox of options that a farmer can employ locally, when and as needed. We need more options, not fewer choices.
Coming from industry, I want to consider how we fit into sustainable agriculture. Industry, the productionof goods and services for others, will not and cannot go away unless we return to subsistence economies. Government, academia, and NGO’s don’t make stuff. If you are sitting on it, wearing it, flew here in it, or ate it for breakfast- some industry probably produced it. I am not making a moral claim here, just a practical one. Somebody’s gotta make stuff!
Agricultural sustainability will require civil society to identify diverse practices to be implemented in response to a changing climactic, economic, regulatory, and social environment. Success will require dialog and partnership. Technology is not enough. We will need to harmonize and synchronize global regulation; manage the balance of regulation with facile implementation, and work to assure both safety and high public confidence in emerging technology to assure that our toolbox contains many solutions that can be rapidly and efficiently deployed when and where the need arises.
Dr. Dan Goldstein is Senior Science Fellow and Lead, Medical Sciences and Outreach at Monsanto. He served as an industry expert for the first "Nourishing 9 Billion" Solutions Lab at Tufts University, April 17, presented by Net Impact and supported by Monsanto. His article is excerpted from his comments at the event.
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Industries play a very important role in the development of agriculture :
According to Me, “Agricultural progress is essential to provide food for growing non-agricultural labour force, raw materials for industrial production and saving and tax revenue to supportdevelopment of the rest of the economy, to earn foreign exchange and to provide a growing market for domestic manufactures.”