What is green agriculture

Green agriculture refers to the type of agricultural development that harmonizes agricultural production and environmental protection, and protects the environment and ensures the greenness and non-pollution of agricultural products while promoting agricultural development and increasing the income of farmers. Green agriculture involves a wide range of comprehensive concepts such as ecological material cycle, agro-biological technology, integrated nutrient management technology, rotational farming technology and so on.

The concept of green agriculture originated from the rich practice of green food industry in China for about twenty years. Facts have proved that the ideology of green food, management and standard system is in line with China's national conditions, suitable for the new situation of modern agricultural development.

Green agriculture refers to all forms and modes of agricultural development that are conducive to environmental protection, quantity and quality safety of agricultural products, and sustainable development. Green agriculture in its sequential advanced process will gradually adopt high-tech green agricultural technology, the formation of modern industrial system.

Expanded Information:

Traditional agriculture is a self-sufficient small-scale agriculture, the advantages of which are energy saving, resource saving, capital saving, intensive cultivation, human-animal combination, organic fertilizers, and no environmental pollution, but there are also the drawbacks of low inputs, low outputs, low benefits, monocultures, weak disaster resilience, and low labor productivity.

Green agriculture is an organic combination of traditional and modern agriculture, with high yield, stable yield, high efficiency, ecology, safety as the goal, not only increased labor, fertilizer, animal power, machinery, equipment and other agricultural means of production inputs, but also increased scientific and technological, intellectual, information, human resources, and other soft inputs, so that the development of green agriculture more distinctive characteristics of the times.

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