Tuesday 14 October 2014

The future of agriculture

It is generally understood that world food production tends to outstrip world food demand, despite population growth.
There is some uncertainty whether this has been true in very recent years, but the long-term trend has been toward increasing food supplies. Distribution of food is another issue, and countries without democracy or free markets, or those engaged in war or facing extreme poverty obviously tend to have the greatest problems feeding their populations.
But in at least a hypothetical sense there tends to be sufficient food to feed the world if it were distributed correctly.
Recent advances in agriculture technology are aiding in food production. These tend to be of two types, biological and digital.
Biotech advances are leading to more productive and nutritious crops.
Agriculture has a great potential in increasing the income of every household and also making every individual to have  a sustainable food production for the family or society at large.
There are vast land yet to be cultivated for food production and I expect everybody to at least have a backyard garden to cultivate crops and rear animals. This can be for leisure or as a full time business.

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