Raising crop yields

Expediting improved crop production

Description

Raising crop yields involves implementing agricultural practices and technologies that increase the amount of produce harvested per unit of land. Essential actions include improving seed varieties, optimizing fertilizer and water use, adopting pest and disease management techniques, and utilizing modern farming equipment. The primary purpose is to address food insecurity, enhance farm productivity, and ensure sustainable resource use, thereby remedying low agricultural output and supporting growing populations with reliable food supplies.

Claim

Yields in modern agricultural systems are sustained by investing costly external resources of uncertain future availability and with technologies that have prompted ecosystemic degradation. The ecological and socioeconomic aspects of developing alternative, self-sustained, energy efficient, less resource-intensive agroecosystems need attention.