Sustainable Agriculture and 3 Criteria of Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is the successful management of resources for agriculture to satisfy changing human needs while maintaining or enhancing the quality of the environment and conserving natural resources (CGIAR, 1988).
Sustainable agriculture is those farming system which minimise the use of external inputs and minimise the use of internal inputs already existing on the farm (Carter, 1989).
Sustainable agriculture is those agricultural Systems that are environmentally sound, profitable and productive and that maintain the social fabric of the rural community (Keeny, 1989).
Criteria of Sustainable agriculture
The criteria of Sustainable agriculture are given below
Ecological criteria
1. Balance use of nutrients.
2. Efficient use of soil, water and genetic resources.
3. Need based external inputs.
4. Minimal negative environmental impacts.
Economic criteria
1. Sustained farmers livelihood.
2. Competitiveness.
3. Efficient use of production factors.
4. Low relative value of external inputs.
Social criteria
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1. Widely acceptable and equitable adoption potential among farmers.
2. Reduced dependence on external institution.
3. Respecting and building ITKs, beliefs and value system.
4. Contribution on Employment generation.
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