The Importance of Agriculture in the World.

Nowadays we have a busy life in megacities engaged with cars and technology, oftentimes we don’t have time to think about our feeding and health. Why feeding is less important than work, smartphones, cars, etc.? Dalai Lama said “Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health…” when asked what surprise him most about humanity. Every day we eat! Our life depends on food! Therefore agriculture is very important not only to human feed but to take care of the nature and economically.

The first important function of agriculture is human feed and the most famous function, because we know which we need to eat to survive. But in this part have much others characteristic. In agriculture we can produce health food, with less calories, with more vitamins and break the American habit to eat fast-food and caloric things. Fast foods and processed foods have more sodium, calories, Trans fat and sugar, therefore these things can develop diabetes, obesity, diseases and others problems to human health according to Clay McNight in his text “Healthy Food vs Fast Food”. Besides we can develop good food to our herd. When we take care and treat correctly, we can produce good meat and more food to feed the population. According to United Nations World Food Programme one in eight people do not have access to enough food to be healthy, Asia is the continent with most number of hunger (two third of the total). Researchers have been worked in indoor farms to stay close to the big hunger areas like Dubai, Qatar and Abu Dhabi said Tafline Laylin in her text “A Hunger for Solutions”.

Another important function in agriculture is all which involving the nature. “The Mother Nature” as we call! We can’t grow without think in protect her. In the 21^st century we start to hear this word more than other centuries due to greenhouse and deforestation. So, researchers worked to figure out alternative sources of biofuel in order to decelerate the effect of greenhouse gases and which one don’t aggress the earth. Countries like Brazil and U.S.A. have been produced biofuel using sugarcane, corn respectively and another types of material as industrial waste. But that is not the only way to protect the nature, we can use less products in the crops to control pests or weeds. Every year products are developed to protect plants and no affect the landscape, for example pesticide which kill only the pests and it don’t devastates the bees. “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then men would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” It is a famous phrase by Albert Einstein.

A third important function in agriculture is economy. The agriculture is the most important source of money in countries as Brazil, where agriculture corresponds to 5.5% to GNP according to Wikipedia and indispensable in U.S.A. and European Union. Among the world’s largest companies many of these work in agriculture like Monsanto, Bayer, John Deere, BASF and much others. This companies work to develop seeds with high technology, each seed have a lot of researches to found the better gene to transform in a great and productive plant; also advance products to plant protection to avoid problems with the nature and human health; fertilizers according to a kind of soil, crops or country and trucks and machines to different operations and situation like pesticide application or harvester of eucalyptus.

From these information we can see how agriculture became important and necessary to the whole society, in several areas. So, we must develop the agricultural full potential in all aspects, uniting technology to sustainability with the intention to increasingly reduce the world hunger without harming nature.