SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Conclusions

    Amongst the lines of direction and proposals of Agenda 21 to reach the Sustainable Development we can find Chapter 14 (Promotion of Sustainable the Agricultural and Agricultural Development) dedicated to the subject agriculture, being distinguished it concern with the chemical fertilizer use for its high potentiality of damage to the environment and the human health, as well as the proposal of handling integrated of the plagues through the biological control to minimize the effect of pesticides.
    It is known that the losses of the harvests, before or after them, related the plagues comes to 50% of the production, with incalculable annual damages, showing the importance in fighting for them. This aggregate factor to the explosive increase of human population with projection for 14 billion people for year 2,020, comes demanding bigger food production, what it complains the development of agrochemical (agrotoxics) each time more powerful, that have caused great damages to the environment with the contamination of the ground and waters, with consequences in animals and man.
    Having in sight this constant environment degradation caused by the most used methods in agriculture, one stands out that modern agriculture must be customized to the new necessities and to look for methods and use of less aggressive instruments to the environment, giving attention to natural and not toxic products and methods of auto-sustainability, so we can reach the longed for Sustainable Development.

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