How your feelings on Agriculture in the present situation? Bcz Agriculture is the back bone for the Countries but the Agriculture Peoples are not in better situation and what is your opinion on this?
Agriculture in my country is deteriorating, unfortunately, although there are two great rivers, Tigris and the Euphrates and fertile lands, but because the governments are not paying much attention to agriculture, there is no development in this field regardless of it's great contribution to the national economy.
Climate change is a big threat to agriculture so need for more innovation to adopt.
In some developing countries, proper policy for land tenure system to have large land for cultivation.
More value addition needed in developing countries and marketing requires improvement.
In Europe, and specially in France, fertilizers have polluted the land, but not only. They cut the tree hedges, transforming the landscape in a biodiversity desert. They are desert now, with huge parts only planted with one thing, that produce seeds all the same size so they can fit easily in machines and packages. An agriculture for machines. This is this large-owner industrial agriculture that also deserts bees, birds, schools and shops and doctors and nurses and finally humans. When drought come in as in 2018, plants have zero protection and crops are ridiculous. It have to go through a drastic coming back to traditional way and re-introducing biodiversity and an intensive bee protection if we don't want to do as Chinese, hand-fertilize. More than anything, it's really concerning to get aware the whole European population have almost totally loose the sense of growing your own food and in case of agriculture disaster and severe shortage-that is to happen if we don't change- would be totally unable to find food by themselves. Globally, I think initiatives of conserving seeds are a benefit for the whole humanity and industrial agriculture have to stop poisoning us just for money. There are solutions, we should think innovation.
Agriculture including animal husbandry and fishing including aquaculture are the only activities that must feed all of humanity. Even if artificial meat (cow, hen and perhaps some other animals) has been invented and produced from some years (see: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_known_cultured_meat_of_bovine_ducks_and_chickens ) without farming and fishing, we will soon die of hunger. Maybe you can also make steak with petroleum and some other minerals but oil and minerals sooner or later will end. For these reasons, politics (political decision-makers) must realize that it is necessary to change course. How to change course?
1) Increase scientific research in agriculture and fishing;
2) to safeguard the environment in general and to safeguard the useful insects (pollinators);
3) to exclude the experts and the pseudo experts chosen by the politics and the multinationals of agriculture and fisheries, because these "experts" are willing, in order to safeguard their seat (their status), to marry, that is to accept, uncritically the theses and the interests of "clientelist politics" and of the aforementioned multinationals;
4) experts must be chosen "randomly" among all researchers involved in agriculture and fishing and must remain in office for fixed periods of time (3-5 years at most) and non-renewable;
5) to make public all the requests and claims of the lobbies of the multinationals of agriculture and fisheries;
6) increase aid and financial stimulus to small and medium-sized enterprises.
In most areas of agricultural crops intensified production of crops dominates. There is too little organic farming. There are too few sustainable ecological crops.
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