Various factors causing destruction
1. Agriculture Exploitative agriculture and extensive destruction of biodiversity, both flora and fauna are bane of the present day practice of ‘mining nature’ for easier and quicker benefits as seen all over the world. As far as India is concerned, agriculture is our mainstay, as occupation for the masses and as the sustainer of the economy. Presently, global agriculture is in a state of transition. Farm sizes are getting larger and larger in the industrialised countries where farming is supported by heavy input of capital, technology and subsidy as in the USA. But the situation is different in many of the developing countries like India where average farm size is getting smaller and smaller. Our farmers are lacking access to technology and credit and have to produce crop, facing the competition from the open market economy ushered in by globalization. Corporate agriculture and contract farming are the other options left....
