Modern Farmer to Grow Agriculture product

The technologies allowing the shift toward monoculture were mechanization, the improvement of crop varieties, and the development of agrochemicals to fertilize crops and control weeds and pests. Government commodity policies these past several decades encouraged the acceptance and utilization of these technologies. As a result, farms today are fewer, larger, more specialized and more capital intensive. At the regional level, increases in monoculture farming meant that the whole agricultural support infrastructure (i.e. research, extension, suppliers, storage, transport, markets, etc.) has become more specialized.

Technological advances in agriculture helped reduce greenhouse gas output by reducing the need to convert forests to farmland, the study said. Such conversion involves burning of trees and other naturally occurring carbon repositories, which increases emissions of carbon, methane and nitrous oxide.

The production and use of fertilizer has led to significant greenhouse gas emissions, Burney said, but that increase pales in comparison with what might have been had more forests and grasslands been shifted to agricultural uses.

Farm families, then, are a complex blend of talents, personalities, and loyalties. Everyone has a position to fill. Given the alternatives of leaving the farm to pursue a very different lifestyle or staying on the farm, these families have chosen to stay within the interdependent family network.

Young farm women can benefit from programs or home study materials that help them assess the costs and benefits of the alternative roles availableto them. Such an examination may clarify the economic and social pros and cons of the on-farm work role versus the off-farm work role or a combination of the two for the specific circumstances in a given family. Knowledge of basic veterinary skills such as delivering animals, giving shots, and checking for signs of illness can help farm women