Pros & Cons Of Arable Crops

Arable crop production is a standardized use of land to grow crops.

FREMONT, CA: Arable crop production is a standardized use of land to grow crops. First, farmers discover how productive their land is, and then they track a construction procedure after the former year’s harvest to have a persistent supply of their valuable produce.

Arable farming incorporates growing crops like wheat and barley instead of growing vegetables and fruits or keeping animals. It is used to accomplish the rising demand for food. It can be performed mainly on small-scale, commercial or large agricultural farms.

Different types of Arable Crops are-

• Grain crops such as wheat, maize, rice, barley and millet are fertilized for their edible starch grains.

• Pulse crops for their edible seeds, such as lentils, beans and peas, which are high in protein.

• Oil seed crops like rapeseed, soybean, and sunflower are grown to extract oil from their seeds.

• Forage crops such as cowpea, timothy and clovers are fresh and are preserved for feeding animals.

• Fiber crops like cotton and jute are fertilized for non-food use.

• Tuber crops like potato and elephant yarn are grown for their edible underground parts.

Arable farming provides us with many of our staple foods and is also accountable for producing oil and fodder for animals. In addition, it produces a large variety of annual crops.

Annual crops are the crops that start from germination and end with grain production within 12 months.

Arable farming develops a crop rotation system, which helps control specific weeds, pests and diseases linked with specific crops and provides environmental benefits like upgrading the soil structure by sowing pasture and raising soil nitrogen levels by growing legume crops.

Globally, arable crops are mainly done in eastern England, including Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and the east of Scotland. Arable farms have earth’s 57 million square miles of land, which is almost 12 million square miles; nonetheless, arable land is being lost at the rate of 100,000 km² yearly.

Some disadvantages Of Arable farming has:

• High mechanical cost

• Depletion in soil fertility

• Crop maintenance, pest and weed control cost is High.

• Climate sensitive

• Feeding a growing population