Environmental, Ecological & Sustainable Aspects of Agriculture—An Overview

P.K. Paul¹ , R.R. Sinha² , Ricardo Saavedra³ , Pappachan Baby⁴ , Bashiru Aremu5⁵

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.6 , Issue.12 , pp.58-63, Dec-2020

Online published on Dec 31, 2020

Copyright © P.K. Paul, R.R. Sinha, Ricardo Saavedra, Pappachan Baby, Bashiru Aremu5 . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Environment and Ecologies are most important concern our lives; all of us connected with the environment and all of us depends on environment; directly and indirectly. Environment is one of the important names and concern. All of us within the Environment and there are different living and non-living things within Environment. Environment is an Applied Science and deals with various facets of the Natural Sciences. ‘The complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (such as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival’ & ‘The aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an individual or community’—according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary. Agriculture is an important part of the environment. Without agriculture surviving is not possible and moreover, there are certain methods, tools and procedure for the agriculture. There are various advancement in the agricultural systems and this include the latest technological and engineering based applications viz. genetics, nanotechnology, information technology etc. However the growing applications of genetics etc may have different bad impact including on agriculture and environment. This paper is a kind of review paper describes the aspects on environment, agriculture, sustainability in agriculture etc. Further paper emphasizes on the aspects on overview, characteristics, nature, issues on towards the concern of the environment and agriculture including the sustainability.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Environment, Ecology, IT Applications, Genetics, Sustainability, Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural Development

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