What is effect of agriculture on environment?

Answer 1

It effects it alot because farming helps the environment because the farmers have to take care of it so they can grow crops.
Diffirent techniques, effect the the environment in different ways. for instance traditional methods like scything and steeping, effect the the environment in a far different and far more positive way compared to modern ultra-scale farming, which involves the use of pestercides, fungacides, insecticides and artificial fertilizers, which are basically used to eradicate nature. However Plants cant grow without nature as we know, So we've come up with artificial oil-based fertilizers to try and substitue nature, which doesn't work. these chemicals are also varstly inefficient, as every time we use the the 'pest' becomes imune to it, so more boffins have make a different type, and we just go round in circles. There latest chemicals are called neonictinoids, which have effected the environment so much so that life on this earth is likely to last less than ten years. Because the bees are being effected, which are the main pollinators, and exist on every single continent on earth exept Antarctica.

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Answer 2

The question is vague, so the answer is "it depends."

In general, the type of mono-crop agriculture that is modern farming practice decreases the space available for other plants and animals, and thus decreases diversity of plants and animals.

Answer 3

That just depends on what type of "animal farming" you are referring to. In most cases, intensive farming is more harmful to the environment than extensive farming. Sustainable ranching or holistic ranching is much more environmentally friendly than the kind of ranching that is practiced in South America where destruction of the rainforests for ranchland is a common thing.

Answer 4

Agriculture affects the environment by the kind of soil used, wildlife habitats and the air we breathe in. It also effect by the amount of water used in the soil.

Answer 5

mainly nothing that i know just clearing an area and planting and more planting.

Answer 6

by farming for nutrients

selling their food so we can eat

harvesting when needed

Answer 7

Because we cant grow anything because all of the good soil has been plowed and exposed to the drying sun causing us not to have anything to eat!!