Question

what is the modern farming methods? explain it drawbacks.

Answer 1

Disadvantages of Technology in Agriculture:

✳️The excessive use of chemicals by the help of machines reduces the fertility of the land.

✳️Lack of practical knowledge the farmers cant handle the machines properly.

✳️While the cost of maintenance is very high.

✳️Overuse of machines may lead to environmental damage.

✳️It is efficient but has many side effects and drawbacks.
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Modern farming technology is used to improve the wide types of production practices employed by farmers. It makes use of hybrid seeds of selected variety of a single crop, technologically advanced equipment and lots of energy subsidies in the form of irrigation water, fertilizers and pesticides.
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Answer 2

The methods of farming that uses high inputs of capital, labour, heavy usage of farm machinery such as threshers, harvesters, winnowing machine, heavy usage of technology such as selective breeding, pesticides, chemical fertilizers and insecticides are known as modern farming methods.

As a coin has two faces similarly modern farming has advantages as well as disadvantages. Some of the disadvantages of modern farming methods are:

=> expensive

=> not organic(pesticides and insecticides)

=> if some products such as insecticides and pesticides if used in higher amount then can even be harmful for the crops, soil and helpful bacteria of the soil