Conventional agriculture
Conventional agriculture is the name for the generally customary and widespread methods of arable farming and livestock farming that are not tied to specific farming methods such as integrated farming or organic farming; it was only when they were introduced that the term «conventional» came up. It is inappropriate because this type of agriculture in industrialised countries is subject to rapid technological progress and produces in a resource-efficient manner.
This is based above all on the thorough mechanization of all work processes, which are increasingly controlled electronically, in some cases even automated, and also on biotechnological and genetic modifications of livestock and crops for the purpose of increasing and securing yields. In livestock farming, progress is evident in the highly developed stable technology with air conditioning, feed control, milking robots and liquid manure removal. All types of digital support are used in crop production.
Terms from the glossary
- Abiotic / Biotic Stress
- Agroecology
- Analytics
- Bees
- Bio-dynamic agriculture
- Biocides
- Biodiversity
- Biologicals
- Biotechnology
- Carcinogenic
- Causality
- Chemophobia
- Cisgenic Plants
- Climate change
- Conventional agriculture
- Correlation
- CRISPR/Cas9
- Digital Agriculture
- Flower strips
- Food Loss
- Food security
- Food Waste
- Gene editing
- Genetic engineering
- Hazard
- Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHP)
- Insect deaths
- Integrated Pest Management
- Limit values
- Metabolites
- Molecular Pharming
- Mutation breeding
- Organic farming
- Organic pesticides
- Pesticide
- Plant breeding
- Plant protection products
- Poison cocktail
- Population growth
- Precautionary principle
- Precision Fermentation
- Regenerative agriculture
- Resilience in the food system
- Resource efficiency
- Risk
- Rural exodus
- Seed treatment, seed dressing
- Species diversity
- Sustainability
- Synthetic pesticides
- Taxonomy
- The Green Revolution
- Transgenic plants
- Urban Farming
- Water scarcity
- Weeds