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Why should a community use sustainable practices to produce food?

A. it keeps farmers in business by earning them the highest profits.
B. it protects the environment, farming communities, and farmed species.
C. It harms only a few living things while still generating high profits.
D. It feeds a shrinking human population while still preserving ecosystems.

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The answer to this question is :B
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Answer:

B. it protects the environment, farming communities, and farmed species.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sustainable practices in Agriculture is a way or practice of carrying out agriculture or farming such that we can meet the needs of a growing human population, preserve the ecosystem as well as managing and effectively using the supply of agricultural produce that we have in the right way.

Some sustainable agricultural practices includes:

a. Reducing the amount of waste been produced.

b. Planting a variety of crops most especially cover crops.

c. Using the appropriate amount of pesticide in order to minimize pollution of the ecosystem.

Sustainable Agricultural practices in a community helps to provide adequate quantity of foods required by the communities, preserving the ecosystem as well as ensuring that the Agricultural resources available to the future generation is not depleted as well.

Sustainable Agricultural practices is a sustainable way to practice agriculture because it helps to decrease the poverty rate and increase the food security rate in a community.

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