Environmental Impact of Agriculture.
                     ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF AGRICULTURE
Degradation of Land
• The degradation of land in one form or the 
other is matter of serious concern 
endangering sustainability of agriculture. 
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Biodiversity
• India is a country with wide variety of agro-
climatic conditions which harbour a wide 
variety of animals and plants. 
• As agriculture is becoming more and more 
commercialized, several plant and animal 
species are becoming extinct.
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Pest Problem
• With the shift in crop pattern, increase in 
area under irrigation and higher cropping 
intensity, the pest problem has become 
very severe. 
• The seriousness of pests has further 
increased by way of indiscriminate and 
increased use of pesticides.
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Disposal of Industrial & Agricultural Wastes
• The use of by-products such as paddy straw 
and rice husk has not been made properly. 
• The burning of such by-products creates 
increase in carbon dioxide in the 
atmosphere resulting in respiratory 
problems for animals and human beings. 
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Air Pollution
• The mechanization of agriculture require 
various energy resources such as diesel, 
electricity, petrol etc. 
• Moreover, higher use of fertilizers as well, 
has negative impact on the ecology of the 
country by air pollution.
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Health hazards
• The direct effect of high use of dangerous 
pesticides is on human and animal health. 
• A large variety of cases of residual effect of 
pesticides and intake by human and 
animals have created health hazards.
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Depletion of grass land
• The depletion of vegetative cover such as 
grass lands and forest tree species and 
similarly extinction of wild animals, birds 
and insects is matter of concern. 
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Fresh Water Consumption
• Worldwide, agriculture accounts for 70 
percent of human freshwater 
consumption. 
• A great deal of this water is redirected onto 
cropland through irrigation schemes of 
varying kinds.
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Impacts on Soils
• Without adequate fertility management 
practices, soil fertility declines as 
consecutive crop cycles mine nutrients 
from the soils.
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