What is ecological agriculture

Eco-agriculture, or ECO for short, is a comprehensive agricultural production system formed in accordance with the principles of ecology, under the guidance of the laws of economics, and with a comprehensive assessment of economic, ecological and social benefits.

Eco-agriculture is based on the farming essence of traditional agriculture, such as farming time, season, planting and raising land, farming tradition, etc. It draws on modern scientific and technological achievements, efficient management means, and combines forestry, animal husbandry, sideline, fishery, lakes, grass, sand and other types, levels, modes of operation, and forms of production, to form a full recycling of material and energy internally, and output high-quality products with sufficient nutrition externally, so as to realize the benefits of agricultural production, rural ecology, and rural economy. The sustainable development of agricultural production, rural ecology and rural economy will ultimately achieve the perfect combination of "green mountains and green waters are golden mountains and silver mountains".

Since the 1960s, the context of the times and the rapid increase in population, food production has become the primary demand for high input, high output, but labor-saving, labor-saving, quick results to pesticides and chemical fertilizers as the main embodiment of the reality of high pollution, the rapid development of industrialized agricultural production methods, so that farmers have gradually abandoned the five thousand years inherited from the " The traditional farming methods of "planting and feeding the land, sustainable and recycling" have been abandoned by farmers over the past 5,000 years.

Thirty years of industrialized agricultural production, its negative effects gradually appeared: pesticides and chemical fertilizers have caused significant environmental pollution, pests and weeds more and more difficult to control; especially proud, one of the world's four major black soil in the Northeast black soil, extensive "fade to black" into the "yellow earth High slopes", part of the serious areas have been desertification tendency, warning of the arrival of the agricultural crisis.

Originally rich in biodiversity, vibrant rural farmland ecosystems, in the role of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, land crusting, acidification, salinization, heavy metals exceeded the standard, the land "granular structure" disappeared, the land no longer has the regulating function of light, heat, water, air, in the soil organic matter was seized to the lowest degree, the soil organic matter that depends on the soil beneficial effects of the soil. Dependent on the soil organic matter of the soil beneficial flora also disappeared, and harmful flora rampant, soil earthworms, insects, small mammals have long been difficult to find traces of land and farmland, has been on the verge of collapse.

Industrialized agricultural production methods under the land, is: only "soil", but no "soil", its output of agricultural products, not only taste worse and worse, and the quality of nutritional holes in the quality of life, the lack of life nutrients elements of the serious, more and more unable to meet Human health needs, and even become the root cause of damage to human health, leading to all kinds of inexplicable diseases continue to emerge.

Thinking about the difficulties encountered by the current situation in agriculture, we will find: the so-called pesticides and chemical fertilizers, "high output", is: to seize the traditional farming farming land to feed the combination of thousands of years of accumulation of basic nutrients for the price, as if a normal healthy person injected "heroin" drugs, so that it will not be able to meet the needs of the human body. "Drugs, so that in a short period of time all the accumulated, and even overdraft physical energy and burst out of the power, after the drug is bound to be the person "exhaustion and death, or even if alive, but also is the lingering, dying" state of the miserable rest of his life.

From the search for solutions to the ills of industrial agriculture, thousands of years of traditional farming culture, the advantages of the re-recognition, and then maintain the farmland, the countryside, the overall ecosystem and ecological civilization, will certainly become the direction of the development of the future of agriculture.