Changes in the use of agricultural resources
Changing in resource use
In the beginning, the early man had only one need and that was to find food. But as time passed, his wants grew. He wanted clothes, houses and so on. He is still on a ceaseless quest to satisfy his needs.
As pollution grew, agricultural revolution came about to fulfill the growing need for food. Industrial revolution soon followed to produce good rapidly.
Know about some of these attempts to meet human needs, in our search for material goods, we have been changing out lives completely moving far, far away from many of the eco-friendly habits of our forefathers.
Changes in agricultural resources
Go to a nearby farming village, meet the farmers and find out what new changes have occurred in the kind of machinery used forming, use of insecticides and pesticides, seeds, agricultural techniques and also in the use of water.
The market system and modern agriculture
Modern agriculture, through its total dependence on the market, has turned into a business than a vocation.
Changed the eating habits of people and a market that is abuzz with foreign –made mouth –watering dishes has totally cut into he traditional market of agricultural goods. Thus, today, agriculture has been reduced to total dependence on market tastes and is guided by the demand factor. What to produce is decided not by nature, But by the market! In other words, the choice of what to grow is no longer with the farmer nor is it guided by the national forces like rain and/ or soil. Today, it is being forced by the market.
New farming methods such as buying of seeds from the market and not saving them from the last crop have also had deleterious effect on the agricultural practices. Study the effects of the changing practices on farming, farm produce and the role of market in the choice of crop by farmers.
Changes in the use of agricultural lands
Meet the agricultural officer of the area and find out if land under agriculture has increased or decreased in the last twenty years. Similarly, meet the forest range officer or Forest Guards in the area and find out how forestland has diminished over the last twenty years. Find out about the effect of this change on the animals living in the shrinking forest.
When acid rain reaches the earth, it acidifies the land turning it barren. It affects living farms. Amphibians like frogs lay eggs in small holes in the ground. If acid rains reach there the eggs do not hatch. In the same way, moll scans and corals depend on calcium for their existence. Acid rain destroys calcium. Fish and other aquatic animals cannot survive in acid rain. Acid rain destroys the food chain, forests and crops are ruined. Quality of both surface and ground water is affected.
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