Title: ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SERBIA
Abstract: Achieving sustainability gives an answer on question what is a sustainable agroecosystem? Sustainability has been the background context of nearly every topic addressed so far. This paper proposes a framework for setting the parameters for sustainability, outlines indicators that can tell us if we are moving in the necessary directions, and sets criteria for the research needed to fashion a more sustainable path in agriculture. The concept of sustainable development and the complex analysis of the state of the environment require from agriculture to produce enough food in a manner that does not endanger the environment. Due to the significant percentage of the population living in rural areas, because of the high percentage of gross domestic product, as well as the growing adverse impact that agriculture has on the environment, our country needs a strategy of sustainable development in agriculture. One of the goals of the sustainable agriculture is to create farming systems that mitigate or eliminate environmental harms associated with industrial agriculture. That aim can be realized only in flexible cultural practices in real agroecological conditions (different regional characteristics, soil types, adapted cultivars for low-input or organic production). The transformation from conventional to sustainable organic field crop technology production requires changes and adaptation of many cultural practices. Organic farming is one of the most interesting current trends in agriculture entirely based on ecological principles and the absence of agricultural chemicals use (pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics, hormones, GMOs, etc. The Republic of Serbia has significant natural resources and favorable conditions for agricultural production, which can meet the basic requirements for the establishment of organic farming, due to less contamination of soil and water, and to less use of pesticides and other chemicals.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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