been tolerated. This, however, brought adverse effects on the agricultural landscape of the country. Therefore, the agricultural landscape of the Philippines should be preserved by lessening the conversion of agricultural areas to non-agricultural uses in which will result in increased agricultural production, local and national food security, economic viability and better quality of life.
As mentioned, there is an ongoing land conversion in the country. For example, in the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Bulacan, there is an ongoing massive conversion of prime agricultural lands to housing, commercial establishments, and industrial estates. About 20,000 ha of farmlands were converted every year (from 1970 to 1980) to be used for other land uses. It is estimated that more than 100,000 ha of agricultural lands all over the country are targeted for conversion in the next five years to give way to industrial, commercial, residential, and tourism uses (Cardenas, 1998).
These agricultural land conversions in the country are driven by several factors (Govindaprasad and Manikandan, 2014). One of the factors, the country’s population growth, is an important factor causing agricultural land conversion. The increasing number of nuclear families and population leads to the increase of human habitation, thus, leading to the increase on the demand for agricultural land which is due to expansion of settlement. This expansion of settlement causes the conversion of
It is of concern to me that Congressmen that own farmland are not mandated to publicly state who they are. These secret subsidies means that most Congressional farmers are profiting instead of independent farmers. This is money that could circulate in that independent farmer’s community that go to a white collar businessman. So why did the House and the Senate mutually agree to not list the Congressman with shares in the farming industry?
Did you know that in factory farms, the majority of chickens, turkeys, and ducks have their beaks removed to prevent cannibalism? What about that egg-laying hens are sometimes starved up to 14 days, exposed to different light patterns, and not given water to shock their bodies into molting? Many people live their lives not knowing of the cruelties that occur in a factory farm. Last year I had an older friend that worked at a factory farm specifically for pigs. One day when I was visiting him, I asked how he liked his job that he had recently gotten hired on to.
Tremendous population growth and depletion of nutrients from overplanting were causing great demand for land. The birth
As defined by the Oxford Dictionary, “factory farming,” also referred to as “industrial farming,” is “a system of rearing livestock using intensive methods, by which poultry, pigs, or cattle are confined indoors under strictly controlled conditions.” Contrary to what some animal activist groups might argue, there are indeed great benefits of factory farming, including the employment of around 700,000 full- and part-time workers in the US (“Factory Farm Workers”). Other benefits of factory farming that relate to the logos appeal include its cost efficiency (for both producers and consumers) and the innovation it allows for in the food industry. On the other hand, there are many logos-related disadvantages to industrial farming as well, including
The shift of agriculture to a collective structure was extremely smart in allowing for urban populations to revive the food they desired but it caused for the government to require near impossible quotas from the farmers. The creation of collective farms also caused for families to be forced off of land they held for years and created state owned
Jack Maxwell Mrs. Mason Ap Human Geography February 25, 2023 History of Agriculture The earliest forms of agriculture can be traced back to approximately 10,000 years ago. Back then, there was no technology used in agriculture, everything was muscle powered, whether it be by man or animals like horses and cattle.
So, people think they can get more opportunities in the big cities which rise abruptly in succession. Then they began to move to urban. The consequence of this is the population of people are much more than the population of rural area. On the other hand, the improvement of agriculture is also very important effect of in industrial revolution. Although more people come to urban area and join the industry, but the provisionment hadn’t decrease or stop.
Discuss two reasons why the government wanted to reform agriculture. The government wanted to reform agriculture because they believed that the low prices caused hunger by discouraging production and creating scarcity. The government wanted to increase production by making it a more profitable crop to grow.
Human civilization evolved over a period of time. People’s life, behaviour and adoption have been changed from gathering and hunting to urbanization stage. In the beginning, people were depending on gathering and hunting then they reached the stage of cultivation of crops and this way agriculture began. At that time people did agriculture from bare hands, later on, plough developed. At that time, agriculture production is low because of lack of agricultural knowledge and technological inputs were also low which bind the whole family to work in agriculture fields.
Over population often puts pressure on a country to produce more. This leads to poor farming practices, overgrazing and monoculture. The constant land degradation and low rainfall causes desertification in arid and semi-arid areas. The desertification results in unproductive farmland which increases the pressure to produce food even more.
Agriculture is the modification of Earth’s surface through the cultivation of plants and animals through the cultivation of plants and animals to obtain economic gain. It was also a key development for the rise of the domestication of animals. Although, its origins cannot be documented for certainty because agriculture began before recorded history, scholars believe that it was started in Southwest Asia. Also, agriculture entails selective breeding of animals with combinations of inherited characteristics that benefits humans. Around the world, agriculture’s steps are the same, but the type of animals that were raised or cultivated differently.
Introduction: “Sustainable agriculture is the efficient production of safe high quality agricultural products, in a way that protects and improves the natural environment the social and economic conditions of farmers their employees and local communities and safe guard the health and welfare of all farmed species“ There are three main principles of sustainable agriculture, the three principles are: 1. Economic sustainability 2. Environmental sustainability 3. Social sustainability With the human population continuing to rise, it is vital that the agricultural industry becomes more sustainable to meet the needs of the growing population. One of the impacts of this growing population is an increase in land usage for settlement purposes.
Many aren’t aware of the problem we have with urban sprawl. Everywhere we go we see farmlands and forest being destroyed to build houses, offices, and parks. There are many issues towards urban sprawl in how it affects our country and certain areas that could affect individuals. We already have many environmental issues we have to deal with like global warming, climate changes, deforestation, and pollution. Urban sprawl has increased certain environmental issues starting with deforestation.
And one of the old solutions for this concern is to increase number of cultivation lands and exploit new fish stocks. But the competition for land from other human activities makes this an increasingly unlikely and costly solution .for example food producers are experiencing grater rivalry for land, water energy and the need to curb the many negative effects of food production on the environment becoming increasingly clear (Tilman et al. ,2001;
Background Jakarta has a population of about 9.6 million people and in the last three decades, urban development of Jakarta has grown very rapidly in many sectors starting from industry, trade, and transportation until real estate. The increase in Jakarta’s population and urban development had cause several environmental problems including land subsidence. Land subsidence is a gradual settling or sudden sinking of the Earth 's surface owing to subsurface movement of earth materials. The level of soil in Jakarta is slowly degrading due to the disturbance of the soil consistency, and the water level in the soil is slowly decreasing, and now the sea level in Jakarta is higher than the ground level. In another word, Jakarta has been experiencing