What are the problems faced by people in villages and cities when crops are destroyed?
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Some of the major environmental problems faced by people in urban areas in India are as follows: 1. Use of chemical fertilisers 2. Use of chemical pesticides 3. Desertification 4. Housing and fuel wood 5. Sanitation 6. Health services 7. Electricity and water supply 8. Transport.
Rural areas are mainly agriculture oriented region. People in the rural areas live on mainly by farming and other such activities like dairy, poultry, horticulture etc. People in the rural areas need very basic amentias like schools for education, hospitals for health services, good communication and transport facilities to urban places, telephone and other such media networks, water supply and electric supply etc.
Rural areas were generally free from air pollution because of less number of vehicles. Water in rural areas was also free from pollution as population is limited. All this is not now due to use of various modem methods in farming. Use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides in farming leads to soil, air and water pollution in these areas.
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On the basis of the above study we can say that the chronic poverty, illiteracy, lack of mechanisation, scarcity of HYV inputs, lack of capital formation, flood and drought, poor agricultural marketing facilities, lack of knowledge about demandable crops or more appropriately the absence of commercialization