Green agriculture is basically using products that won't harm the environment to achieve the same or similar results by eliminating or finding some other ingredient that will work the same way that the pesticides do. Some green agricultural solutions are green manure, crop rotation, and biological pest control.
Some of the green agricultural solutions I know of are manure that's used for breaking down some unwanted plants and it also creates some useful plants that can serve many different functions. As of right now a lot of farmers use this including my family that owns horses. From it we are able to produce a whole lot of different plants. So in other words it's proven to work very successfully.
Another green agricultural solution is crop rotation, which is used alongside with legumes to provide nitrogen to the environment through a process known as symbolisis a process including a special kind of bacteria called rhizobial bacteria (bacteria that lives in the soil that fix nitrogen after developing inside the roots of legumes.
The third green agricultural solution is the biological control of pests, which is a way to control pests (like the common insects and mites) that uses natural methods, such as predation (where a predator feeds on it's prey), parasitism (where the parasite is used as a food source for the host), and herbivores (animals that eat only plants).
http://pakagri.blogspot.com/2011/06/green-versus-brown-compost-materials.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming
This sounds interesting like an interesting topic to discuss. Many people have gardens, and green solution to help their garden will also benefit the environment. I know manure works well, my family uses it on our gardens, but what is green manure? I think biological control of pests sounds like an interesting topic, because you do not want to kill your plant, but you want to get rid of the pest.
ReplyDeleteI think the crop rotation is very interesting. I never really thought about it before now. So much can be done in the agricultural world to be greener. You did a good job summarizing the solutions!
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