Describe the two major economic problems confronting U.S. agriculture. What would be the anticipated impact on farmers without government intervention?
1) heavy mechanisation
With heavy mechanisation, everything has become closely related to fossil fuel, even it act as the base for synthetic pesticides and fertilisers. Hence, cost of agriculture has increased a lot.
2)degrading farm land
With unfavourable climate changes and excessive pollution ,farmland are continuously loosing their natural fertility, making it agriculture very difficult.
Farmers needs improvement help from the govt not only in the form of subsidies but also in the form of environment friendly policies and their enactment. As, all their work depends on natural resources and its quality.
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