Noticeable Challenges Facing Agriculture Sector
Keywords:
Agricultural assets, Global GDP, Challenges, Land degradation, Drought stress, Biotic stress, Nutrient’s deficiencyAbstract
We are living in an agriculturally based world. Where human development predominantly depends upon agricultural assets. A large number of workforces are surviving due to agriculture. It also contributes as a backbone of global GDP. In short, more than half population of the world directly or indirectly depends upon farming sector. Even though it has important and progressive influences, yet the farming of the world faces several challenges and pressures. The noticeable problems include, land degradation, drought stress in plants, biotic stress in term of reduction in the amount of microbial population, environmental management, nutrients deficiency, influence of industrial waste water, impact of inorganic fertilizers and effects of pollution etc. These noticeable problems of agriculture greatly affect the production as well as fertility of our soils. Moreover, this study will help the researchers to find out the restored solution for the control of these noticeable problems of agriculture which is directly or indirectly damaging the farming sector.
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