Sunday, September 6, 2009

World food Problems

IN many devellooping countries where populations are expanding rapidly,the production of food is unable to keep pace with the growing demand.Food production in 64 of the 105 developing countries is lagging behind their population gtowth levels.These countries to produce more food,or do not have the financial means to import it .India is one of the counry that have been able to produce enough food by cultivatinga large proportions of its arable and then through irrigation.The Green Revoltution of the '60s reduced starvation in country.However many of the technologies wehave used to achieve this are now being questioned.
* Our fertilite soils are being expoilted faster than they can recuperate.
* Forests, grasslands and wetlands have been converted to agricultural use,which has led to seerious ecological questions
* Our fish resources both marine and inland show evidence of exhaustion.

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