Sustainable Methodologies to Promote Plant Health and Post-Harvest Waste Prevention

Jonathan Daniel Hulse*

Department of Biology and Department of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Sociology, Shepherd University, United States of America

*Corresponding Author: Jonathan Daniel Hulse, Department of Biology and Department of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Sociology, Shepherd University, United States of America.

Received: June 26, 2021; Published: July 09, 2021

Abstract

Sustainable agriculture is a method and philosophy of agriculture that promotes cultivation techniques that minimizes the use of synthetic pesticides as well as fertilizers in order to promote the natural processes on Earth. Promoting the use of sustainable agricultural knowledge has become increasingly popular because it utilizes the principles of ecology to encourage biological diversity, ecological diversity, and the maintenance of proper soil health. As the Earth’s natural processes are better understood, agronomists, biologists, and soil scientists will become greater assets to the developing world. This manuscript is designed to disseminate knowledge about the practices of building suppressive soils, as well as to foster post-harvest waste production, in order to make the process getting agricultural products from the field to the table, more sustainable.

Keywords: Sustainable Agriculture; Post-harvest; Waste; Suppressive-soils; Sustainability

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Citation

Citation: Jonathan Daniel Hulse. “Sustainable Methodologies to Promote Plant Health and Post-Harvest Waste Prevention". Acta Scientific Agriculture 5.8 (2021): 32-35.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Jonathan Daniel Hulse. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.