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Goals/ objectives of sustainable agriculture:
- Productive and profitable conserve resources and protect the environment.
- Enhances healthy and safe low input management method and skilled management.
- A more incorporation of natural resources such as nutrient recycling.
- A reduction in use of those off farm, external and non-renewable inputs.
- Full participation of rural people and farmers in all processes of problem analysis and technology development, adoption and extension.
- A more equitable access to predictive resources and opportunities and progress towards more socially justice form of agriculture.
- A greater productive use of the biological and genetic potential of plants and animal species.
- Greater productive use of local knowledge and practices.
- Increase in self-reliance
- Improvement in the match between cropping pattern and the productive potential and environment constraints.
- Profitable and efficient production.
Forms of sustainable agriculture:
- Biodynamic farming
- Ecological agriculture
- Natural farming
- Permaculture