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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Insufficient farm experiments

Insufficient farm experiments

  • Suspicion of untried crops
  • Inadequate crop experimentation
  • Experimental farming risk

Broader

Stagnated development of agricultural production
Excellent
Underuse of high productivity methods of agricultural management
Presentable
Unproven new methods
Yet to rate

Narrower

Neglected food resources
Presentable
Uninvestigated fertilizing methods
Yet to rate
Unadapted crop varieties
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Overdependence on few crop species
Presentable
Inappropriate cash crop policy
Presentable
Inadequate farm crop diversity
Presentable
Unproven land preparation techniques
Yet to rate
Low-yield rice crops
Yet to rate
Limited food variety
Yet to rate
Excessive number of crop varieties
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Lack of opportunities for practical training in communities
Presentable
Skeptical farming attitude
Yet to rate

Strategy

Undertaking experimental farming
Presentable
Expanding research on plant genetic resources
Presentable
Enriching cultivated plant's genetic diversity with wild relatives
Presentable
Developing new crop expertise
Presentable
Reducing experimental farming risk
Yet to rate
Exploiting global biological resources for new foods
Yet to rate

Value

Untried
Yet to rate
Suspicion
Yet to rate
Risk-aversion
Yet to rate
Risk
Yet to rate
Insufficiency
Yet to rate
Inadequacy
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero HungerSustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
  • Agriculture, fisheries » Crops
  • Agriculture, fisheries » Farming
  • Research, standards » Experimental
  • Societal problems » Hazards
  • Societal problems » Inadequacy
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020