Abstract:
Negative environmental impacts, health problems, a different type of pollution
are increased in the present world because of human activity. According to
existent environmental reports, the agriculture sector is the dominant reason
for it. Sri Lanka is an agricultural country in Asia. Paddy cultivation is a
dominant economic factor in Sri Lanka. Dating back more than 2500 years,
numerous people subsist life on agriculture. And also build the grate
traditional culture with sir Lankan agriculture. Created positive, strong and
inverse interrelationship between the environment and human activities. With
time-consuming, increasing the population. The farmers have to increase the
food production process to satisfying human needs and necessities. During the
production process wasn’t adequate traditional agricultural practices.
Accordingly, it created modern farming methods with the green revolution.
The farmers use these modern agricultural practices to achieve the advance
yield. Primitive, use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, use tractors, gene
mutation. Although they can acquire the advance yield on the other hand,
beginning the negative environmental effects accordingly distance the ecofriendly
traditional agricultural practices. Therefor spring up soil pollution, air
pollution, global warming, water pollution, not only pollution with negative
environmental effects, but also health problems such as food poisoning,
Neurologic effects, malnutrition, mutations, birth, and development defects.
Those are very complicated problems in the world. However, we should try to
manage this problem. According to the object, the researcher selected this
topic, understand the Negative environmental impacts of modern agricultural
practices.
