| Abstract: | Agriculture has positive and significant contributions to food security, employment,
export earnings, ecological balance, and etc. However, agriculture development
encounters varied challenges. Among others, poor land and water management,
backward cultivation techniques, shortage of information on marketing, poverty,
natural resource degradation, population growth, poor support services and
institutional constraints. The concept of sustainable agriculture comes in response
to the declining natural resource base coupled with agricultural and other
environmental non-friendly activities. Thus, the sustainability notion has
encouraged key adjustments in the conventional agricultural system to make it
more economically viable. In order to focus on sustainable agriculture,
development of technologies and viable agricultural system that do not have
undesirable effect on the environment and, more importantly, acceptable to the
livelihood of farmers/pastoralists must be devised and promoted. |
