Sustainable Crop Production Using Natural Resources

Sustainable crop production using natural resources increase agricultural production and productivity by utilizing ecological and biological integrity of natural resources. It includes a various diverse approaches like hybridization and selection of intervarietal and interspecific species and different landraces and varieties that are well suited to the climatic conditions of the farm: mixed farming and cultural practices to enhance the biological and economic productivity and stability of the land; proper management of the soil to enhance and protect soil structure, soil texture, soil micro fauna and quality: growing of legume crops for soil nitrogen fixation; recycling crop waste and livestock. Sustainable crop production is a method of cultivation using principles of ecology and the study of relationships between organisms and their environment. It is an integrated system of crops and livestock production practices which is having a site-specific application which gives the long term benefits for our future needs. It depends on replenishing the soil while minimizing the use of non-renewable resources. Natural resources are an important source of nutrients and high yielding crop production. Balanced use of natural resources increased nutrient availability, nutrient and water use efficiency, improves soil fertility, enhances crop production and productivity, generate farmers income and create a beneficial interaction between crop and their surrounding environmental conditions. The chemical fertilizers should be used judiciously and proper utilization of natural resources along with chemical fertilizers for increasing demand of food, enhancing crop production and soil productivity in a sustainable way, all these efforts would lead to desired awareness and as a result proper utilization of natural resource would become a cause of a boom in agriculture sector.