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For centuries man has been practising sustainable agriculture without any major damage to the environment.Increase in demand led to industrialisation and intensification of cultivation and livestock rearing. Mixed farming has almost faded and given way to stall feeding for livestock, indiscriminate use of chemical fertilisers for crop cultivation.Health hazards apart these practices are increasingly contributing to global warming.Sustainable farming is the only hope of an assured food supply for the burgeoning human population in the future.
A view of a paddy nursery.Pic credits: green hopes.
Bio fertilisers especially from livestock rearing is a healthy and environment friendly practice still in vogue though replaced in major part by chemical fertilisers.
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Tilling of land by traditional methods using animal draught power.
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Co-existence.Nature’s own way of sustaining the earth.A view at the Animal Husbandry Campus Jammu.
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Harmony. A hen mothers a group of ducklings who lost their mother. A viewon the banks of Nallah Amir Khan, Srinagar
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Extensive deforrestation has caused serious soil erosion problems. A view at Lower Munda, South kashmir.
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