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What is Sustainability, Sustainable Agriculture

Advanced Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Addressing Complex Sustainability Issues
Is a type of agriculture that focuses on producing long-term crops and livestock while having minimal effects on the environment.
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Prioritization of Farming Process by Considering Sustainability as Major Issue: Sustainability in Farming Sector
Suchismita Satapathy (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Bhubaneswar, India) and Debesh Mishra (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8579-4.ch008
Abstract
Agriculture assumes an imperative role in the development of Indian economy, and it additionally contributes around 15% to the nation's GDP, offering work chances to around half of its population. Diverse devices and supplies implied for farming machines are utilized in farming processes which are either manually or mechanically operated. In spite of the fact that there have been advancements in new technologies, sustainability is the most important issue in farming. Modern farming process and advanced machineries have solved OHS (occupational health and safety) problems of farming. But modern equipment's smoke, dust, chemicals, and fertilizers both in manual-driven farming and modern farming are major environmental issues. So in this chapter, sustainability issues in farming are prioritized such that the policies, equipment, and process must be modified.
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