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Sustentabilidad

The document discusses sustainable agriculture practices, emphasizing the benefits of trickle-drip irrigation and mixed cropping techniques like intercropping. It highlights the negative impacts of intensive farming, such as soil erosion and degradation, and suggests adding organic matter to improve soil health. The overall message is that sustainable practices are essential for the future of agriculture and community well-being.

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Sustentabilidad

The document discusses sustainable agriculture practices, emphasizing the benefits of trickle-drip irrigation and mixed cropping techniques like intercropping. It highlights the negative impacts of intensive farming, such as soil erosion and degradation, and suggests adding organic matter to improve soil health. The overall message is that sustainable practices are essential for the future of agriculture and community well-being.

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Sustainable

Agriculture
Sustainable Community
The future is in our hands

Emma Montero, Sofia Ordoñez, Marcos Niño, Josefina Varutti


Agriculture is typical defined as “the cultivation of
animals, plants and fungi, for food and other products
used to sustain human life”

Trickle-drip irrigation (delivering water to

Irrigation the base of the plant using small pipes)


provides the following sustainable benefits:

Minimising the water used


targeted delivery of water to the plants
The ability to use the system only when plants need water
A reduced risk of salination in the soil
Consequenses of exesive or intensive farming

This style of production tends to have high “inputs“, such


as a lot of labour, fertilisers or machinery, this is bad for
the soil and could damage it irreparably.
The biggest consequence of intensive farming is erosion,
which happens because of a mismanagment of the soil.
The best way to manage an extensive land is by
implementing mixed cropping.
Mixed cropping
A specific type of mixed cropping is intercropping: rows
of a different crop are grown in between the established
rows of the main crop. Typically of shorter duration than
other types of mixed cropping, intercropping is used to
maximise the use of space and other resources in a field. It
is often used in new plantations, when the main tree crop
will take a while to mature. Other plants can be grown at
ground level and provide a profit for the farmer while the
main plantation matures
Adding organic matter
A soil is more at risk if it has been left
uncovered therefore this issue can be
adressed by
adding more organic matter
animal manure
composted plant material
Adding organic matter has a number of
effects:
provides additional air gaps in heavy soils
increases the number of soil organisms in
the soil.
Adds nutrients to the soil
Improves the general spoil structure

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