Sustainable agriculture is a topic that many environmental scientists have begun to reflect on in recent years. The reason why it is so vital is because food is something that people need to physically survive on this planet and agriculture deals directly with how to produce it. However, there is a common misconception that sustainable agriculture is only concerned with how to feed today’s expanding population and how to produce enough food to meet current dietary demands. The difference here lies in the central objective of this branch of environmental science. It is a much broader concept that deals with meeting the demand for food in the future. It is a fact that some geographic regions that used to have fertile soils have been turned into deserts due to inefficient agricultural practices that are common in today’s world. So the fact that food is overproduced today won’t seem so exciting if future generations are starving because they don’t have enough supplies to feed the ever-growing population. Therefore, sustainable agriculture is concerned with developing an environmentally friendly and efficient food production system that eliminates the waste of limited natural resources and prevents the land from losing fertility while producing adequate yields year after year. It is still important to produce enough food today, but it is imperative that substantial agriculture be a factor in the decline in fertility and the depletion of natural resources, particularly soil and water. So far we have 3 areas of concern to substantive agriculture: meeting the demand for food today, ensuring that future generations can produce enough food given the constant deterioration of soil and water, and taking control of soil and water. condition.

It is imperative to make agriculture more sustainable if we are to preserve this planet and eliminate the possibility of future world famine. Creating a sustainable agriculture system is actually much more difficult than developing the concept of it in theory. It presents a real dilemma simply because numerous interlocking macro and micro factors influence the level of quality and form of a product produced by the system. Therefore, we have to take into account the complex economic and political environment when theorizing about sustainable agriculture systems. As a result, farmers are forced to produce products that people are willing to buy and that are safe to eat, compete with other producers, and act within political and legal limits. Similarly, sustainable agriculture creates a framework within which farmers must act, in other words, a set of rules to abide by. This simply emphasizes that agriculture is a hard business to stay in and that to make it more sustainable is to make it even more difficult. However, the level of difficulty involved should not deter us from this endeavor because the potential results will definitely outweigh the problems farmers might face today. Every year the total area of ​​agricultural land gradually decreases because the land is being consumed by rapid development. Right now, the US can produce more food than it needs and this can probably continue for several decades, but without radical action, the aggregate supply of food in the global economy will decline. One of the possible solutions to this problem would be government support in the form of lower taxes for farmers. This would help people stay in business longer and focus more on environmental issues. For agriculture to be more sustainable, farmers must use natural resources more efficiently. Some advanced cultivation techniques must be employed to maintain soil fertility at a certain acceptable level and prevent it from deteriorating. They also need to control the amount of fertilizers used in the process, thus producing products that are healthy and safe for consumption. Currently, the situation is far from perfect, but it is going in the right direction with the government beginning to recognize the importance of this problem and providing support to farmers.