Crop Production and Global Environmental Issues
Agricultural production has been considered as the key sector for revitalization of the economy and well being of the people in any country. For decades, due to increasing food demand together with policies encouraging production, agricultural science has
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Crop Production and Global Environmental Issues
Crop Production and Global Environmental Issues
Khalid Rehman Hakeem Editor
Crop Production and Global Environmental Issues
Editor Khalid Rehman Hakeem Faculty of Forestry Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
ISBN 978-3-319-23161-7 ISBN 978-3-319-23162-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23162-4
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Hakeem Abdul Hameed (14 Sept 1908–22 July 1999)
A great philanthropist, thinker, visionary, and founder-chancellor of Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
Foreword
For decades, due to increasing food demand together with policies encouraging production, agricultural science has focused on boosting production through the development of new technologies. It has helped farmers to achieve enormous yield gains as well as lower costs for farming. Agriculture has become increasingly intensive. Farmers are becoming capable of producing higher yields using less labor and less land due to many factors, including use of fertilizer and pesticides, introduction of farm machinery, development of hybrid strains, and increased knowledge about farm management practices. Intensification of agriculture has not, however, been an unmixed blessing because this success has come at a high environmental cost. The detrimental effects of intensification of agriculture include water, air, and soil pollution, as well as the loss of wildlife, habitats, and landscape features. As agricultural sustainability means maintaining productivity while protecting the natural resource base, there is increasing general recognition of the need to improve environmental performance in agriculture, through enhancing the beneficial and
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