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Environmental Issues and Availability of Labour

Pests, soil fertility, and drainage/irrigation are three key environmental issues affecting agriculture. Pests can negatively impact crop and livestock performance if not properly managed through integrated pest management. Soil needs nutrients to support plant growth, and adding organic manure or inorganic fertilizer can improve fertility. Proper drainage systems are important for removing excess water from the land and facilities, while irrigation systems ensure adequate water delivery to plants and animals.

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Environmental Issues and Availability of Labour

Pests, soil fertility, and drainage/irrigation are three key environmental issues affecting agriculture. Pests can negatively impact crop and livestock performance if not properly managed through integrated pest management. Soil needs nutrients to support plant growth, and adding organic manure or inorganic fertilizer can improve fertility. Proper drainage systems are important for removing excess water from the land and facilities, while irrigation systems ensure adequate water delivery to plants and animals.

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Environmental Issues and Availability of Labour

In agriculture, environmental issues refer to the various factors affecting the practice of
cultivating crops and rearing livestock. Some of these issues are pests, fertility of the soil,
wasteful water consumption, drainage and irrigation, soil erosion and degradation and climate
among others.
How and why are these problems and solutions to the problem?

Environment Issues Solution


Pests- a pest problem arises as a result of a The use of Integrated Pest Management(IPM)
pest competing with man. They can be any which includes biological control, chemical
animal that negatively destroys or affects the control and quarantine etc. would keep the pest
performance of plants and animals. under a manageable level.
Soil Fertility- Plants require nutrients to By adding organic manure and/or inorganic
sustain life and these nutrients are attained fertilizer. Organic manure includes bone
from the soil. Without these nutrients, they marrow, compost, animal faeces and green
can die and won’t develop properly. The lack manure which are less harmful to the human
of suitable soil fertility, in turn, wouldn’t give body compared to urea and NPK, inorganic
the consumers adequate nutrients for fertilizers.
sustenance.
Drainage and Irrigation- This is the removal of After farmers are finished with their land
surface and sub-surface water and the clearing, a farmer should make designing and
bringing in of water on a piece of land. This is implementing a suitable drainage system one
in terms of plants but it is also important for of its top priorities.
animals since if a farmer has a huge farm of
livestock and he needs to wash down the pen,
a proper drainage system needs to be in
place. Without this the area would be
stagnant for the animals and excess a water
would cause plant roots to shrivel up and die.

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