Need of sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways, which means meeting society’s food and textile present needs, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs
Co2 Emisson
about 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by agriculture
Water
Polluted 48% of stream and river water
Farming land
Conversion of 50% of the world’s habitable land into farming land
Unsustainable Agriculture
Leads to loss of 12 million hectares of land each year to desertification
Pesticide
increased pesticide usage by 26 times over the past 50 years
Loss of Land
At this rate by 2050, another 120 million hectares of natural habitats will be lost to farmland.
Accelerating the transformation to agriculture
Strategic development beyond plant control - Accelerating the transformation to agriculture
Phasing out of non-selective herbicides
Increasing elimination of non-selective herbicides leads to application gaps
Phasing out of selective herbicides
End of registration for many selective herbicides makes completely new developments necessary
High yields per unit area
The need for high yields per hectare to protect natural areas and ensure food security
pesticide restriction for grocery stores
Reduction of pesticides in vegetables and fruit through contract cultivation and purchasing guidelines
Glyphosate and No-Till
Why glyphosate is so important in conservation agriculture and why we need a substitute particularly urgently?
Soil is not renewable
Soil as a non renewable and limited resource - preservation is essential for our sustainable future
application scalability
scalability of crop-zone application through of modular design of the high-voltage units
