a period when the productivity of global agriculture increased drastically as a result of new advances
crops that are specifically designed to produce more overall yield
when a field is used to grow two or more crops throughout the year, so the field constantly has something growing on it
- producing larger quantities of food
- Cuba could feed its population
- a certain type of wheat could produce more food and exportation of wheat
- being able to grow more crops on the same amount of land with similar amounts of efforts
- production cost was reduced
- food in the market was cheaper
- less forests were converted to farmland
- environmental hazards including pollution of soil and water systems and erosion
- irrigation systems the resulted in water shortages a droughts
- consumption of energy
- the production of genetically modified foods
Credits:
Created with images by Unsplash - "barley cereal grain" • Hans - "field of rapeseeds oilseed rape blütenmeer" • Pexels - "countryside crop farm" • LubosHouska - "nuts crop wooden" • Jon Bunting - "a crop" • Moyan_Brenn - "Field"