ADOPTION OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES FOR THE SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY: A REVIEW

There is an urgent need to match food production with increasing world population. However, the struggle to achieve food security should be carried out keeping in mind the soil and the environment in which the living things survive. The mission of increasing food grain production somehow stands achieved. But it accompanied a series of problems related to the environment and natural resources. Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals. They are environmental health, economic profitability and social-economic equity. Sustainable agriculture is a big challenge and its success lies in new approach to accomplish the goals of growing crops and raising livestock with minimal environmental pollution. Techniques in sustainable agriculture are cover cropping, mixed cropping, crop rotation, conservation tillage, making use of microbial interactions, bio-intensive integrated pest management, aquaponics and integrating livestock and crops. This work was an attempt to discuss the objectives, benefits and techniques used in sustainable agriculture.