This document discusses the environmental impacts of inorganic farming practices. It notes that while agricultural advances have increased yields, they have also caused ecological damage and negative health effects. Specifically, the use of monocultures and pesticides can harm soils, other organisms, and worker health. Research is needed to evaluate these impacts and suggest improvements that protect both the environment and human well-being.
This document discusses the environmental impacts of inorganic farming practices. It notes that while agricultural advances have increased yields, they have also caused ecological damage and negative health effects. Specifically, the use of monocultures and pesticides can harm soils, other organisms, and worker health. Research is needed to evaluate these impacts and suggest improvements that protect both the environment and human well-being.
This document discusses the environmental impacts of inorganic farming practices. It notes that while agricultural advances have increased yields, they have also caused ecological damage and negative health effects. Specifically, the use of monocultures and pesticides can harm soils, other organisms, and worker health. Research is needed to evaluate these impacts and suggest improvements that protect both the environment and human well-being.
This document discusses the environmental impacts of inorganic farming practices. It notes that while agricultural advances have increased yields, they have also caused ecological damage and negative health effects. Specifically, the use of monocultures and pesticides can harm soils, other organisms, and worker health. Research is needed to evaluate these impacts and suggest improvements that protect both the environment and human well-being.
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Adverse Impact of Inorganic Farming in Health and Environment at Gimaga, Goa,
Camarines Sur ( A Basis for Intervention )
Environmental Chemistry is the scientific study of the chemical and biological
phenomena that occur in natural places. It involves first the understanding on how the uncontaminated environment works, which chemicals in what concentration are present naturally and with what effects. Without this, it would be impossible to accurately study the effects human have on the environment through the release of chemicals. Agriculture occupies a large percentage of the Earths land area and its environmental effects are a global issue as well as a local and regional issue. It has a long affected the environment. Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinal and other products use to sustain and enhance human life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human cultivation, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by greatly different climates, cultures, and technologies. However, all farming generally relies on techniques to expand and maintain the lands that are suitable for raising domesticated species. For plants, this usually requires some form of irrigation, although there are methods of dry land farming. Livestock are raised in a combination of grassland based and landless systems, in an industry that covers almost one third of the worlds ice and water free area. In the developed world, industrial agriculture based on large scale monoculture has become the dominant system of modern farming, although there is growing support for sustainable agriculture, including perm culture and organic agriculture. Agricultural practices such as irrigation, crop rotation, application of fertilizers and pesticides, and the domestication of livestock were developed long ago, but have made great progress in the past century. Modern agronomy, plant breeding, agrochemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, and technological improvements have sharply increased yields from cultivation, but at the same time have caused widespread ecological damage and negative human health effects. Agricultural technology continued to improve, allowing the expansion of available crop varieties, including a wide range of fruits, vegetables, oil crops, spices and other products. Further industrialization led to the use of monocultures, when one cultivar is planted on a large acreage. Because of the low biodiversity, nutrient use is form and pests tend to build up, necessitating the greater use of pesticides and fertilizers. Disease and land degradation are two of the major concerns in agriculture today.
The monocultures typically used in intensive agriculture increase the number of
pests, which are controlled through pesticides. Agriculture remains a hazardous industry, and farmers worldwide remain at high risk of work related injuries, lung disease, noise induced hearing loss, skin diseases, as well as certain cancers related to chemical used in farming can also be hazardous to worker health, and workers exposed to pesticides may experience illness or have children with birth defects. Contaminant is a substances present in nature due to human activity that would not otherwise be there the term contaminant is often used interchangeably with pollutant, which is a substances that has a detrimental impact on the environment it is in. Pesticides are the chemical used for spraying to the crop. It is only toxic substances released intentionnaly into our environment to kill living things. This includes substances that kill weeds ( herbicides ), insects ( insecticides ), fungus ( fungicides ), rodents and others. Pesticides are toxic to living organisms. Some can accumulate in water system, pollute the air, and in some cases have other dramatic environmental effects. Scientists are discovering new threats to the environment that are equally disturbing and using it can damage agricultural land by harming beneficial insect species, soil microorganisms, and worms which naturally limit pest populations and maintain soil health. It can weaken plant root systems and immune systems and it is known for reducing concentrations of essential plant nutrients in the soil such nitrogen and phosphorous. The biggest drawback of the pesticide is that after a certain period of time the fertility of land goes away. Researchers have been helpful in conducting evaluations for many areas of sciences. It predicts and evaluates the descriptive and objective data being assessed. As in the case of agriculture, research is an integral part of evaluating effects of different fertilizers used in farming, may it be organic or inorganic, but this kind of study is helpful in giving suggestions and predictions or comments for the improvement of such matter;