ADOPTION OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES FOR THE SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY: A REVIEW

Abstract

There is an urgent need to match food production with increasing world population. However, the struggle to achieve food
security should be carried out keeping in mind the soil and the environment in which the living things survive. The mission
of increasing food grain production somehow stands achieved. But it accompanied a series of problems related to the
environment and natural resources. Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals. They are environmental health,
economic profitability and social-economic equity. Sustainable agriculture is a big challenge and its success lies in new
approach to accomplish the goals of growing crops and raising livestock with minimal environmental pollution. Techniques
in sustainable agriculture are cover cropping, mixed cropping, crop rotation, conservation tillage, making use of microbial
interactions, bio-intensive integrated pest management, aquaponics and integrating livestock and crops. This work was an
attempt to discuss the objectives, benefits and techniques used in sustainable agriculture.