Marine environment & organic agriculture
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) recently revealed in its annual Year Book that tons of throw-away plastic and massive runoff from chemical fertiliser are choking the world's oceans. The report stressed on the need for adopting urgent measures to protect the marine environments which has already experienced significant damages due to over-exploitation and acidification caused by the climate change.Time has come when countries all over the world need to take individual initiatives to control environmental pollutions due to industrial wastes and agricultural chemicals. Switching on to organic agriculture can significantly reduce the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides which harm the overall environment including the marine environment. Proper industrial and general waste management, recycling of plastic and other materials can help control the environmental pollution caused by these elements. In all the cases, governments have to design an institutional set-up to regulate, for instance, organic agricultural system, because refraining from the use of synthetic agricultural inputs does not merely mean organic agriculture. It requires an appropriate farming system, certification of organic products, etc. to run organic agriculture.
Let's take some pragmatic measures to protect our dear earth against environmental destruction!
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