Profit Maximization Through Innovation Technologies

Throughout time, humans have pushed forward in every aspect in life in order to improve their living standards, wealth and most importantly the agricultural sector which is the base of every human race. Food is the basic requirement for any individual to stay alive and healthy. In an article by Tamsin McMahon, she states that over the past 60 years, the world population has grown from 2.5 billion to 7 billion while world hunger dropped from 40% down to 15% (McMahon T., July 2012). This shows that our agricultural advances through technology have helped control world hunger and decrease it by more than half, but this is a short-term solution if we want to consider the future generations that depend on our current actions toward the three main pillars of agriculture which are: Health and nutrition, Economy and sustainability all while considering the local small farms and corporate farms.

This essay is a review of the article “Growing More Food with Less Water”, written by Sandra Postel. According the article, our global freshwater sources, including underground aquifers and rivers are stressed beyond their ability to provide freshwater. Agriculture redesign is necessary with the two primary goals being to cut water demands of mainstream agriculture and bring low cost irrigation to poor farmers. Typical irrigation, crop furrow flooding is a main cause of wasted and polluted water. This article discusses alternatives to typical irrigation. These alternatives have been tested onsite by farers and surveyed.

Majority of the data available online is either too biased or not peer reviewed and hence misleading to the readers. Natural gas is a very valuable resource and can be combined with engineering innovations to vastly improve human life. For instance, natural gas can help enhance energy efficiency by making the methane and ethane conversion process more effectual and economic. Also, natural gas can be used to generate hybrid high-temperature fluids for cleaner sources of energy such as solar thermal as well as natural gas powered systems for effective cooling and heating applications.3 In this age of technology, it is extremely important to discover ways to augment the potential of natural gas while taking the environmental implications into consideration. Sustainable ways should be developed to generate cleaner and more efficient energy while still embracing the economics benefits of the industry. While considering economic benefits of the hydraulic fracturing industry, it is also of utmost importance to consider those who are residing in areas of current or future shale gas operations for detrimental effects to their health and

As a usable energy source, natural gas really only has one disadvantage when compared to oil, gas or coal, but it is a major disadvantage. It is very difficult to store and transport due to its low density (“Uses”). If the transport or storage system is not properly sealed off, there can be risks of a leak. Additionally, since natural gas is a non-renewable energy fossil fuel, its availability is limited, its extraction is also damaging to the environment as it leaves large, unsightly craters (“Advantages and Disadvantages of Natural Gas”). Finally, although it may emit less carbon dioxide than other sources of energy, it still emits a substantial amount compared to

Over 70% of our electricity comes from burning fossil fuels. Increase in technology (a.k.a electricity) leads to burning of waste. As well as the increase in population, leads to increase in food consumption, which greenhouse gas emissions generate from livestock, agricultural soils, and rice production.

Despite natural gas being cleaner compared to coal, its use still has impacts on the air quality, as well as human health. Besides, its production has enormous environmental consequences in form of habitat destruction. Moreover, the contribution of natural gas production to climate change is just slightly less compared to coal in terms of energy. Furthermore, a decrease in the natural gas reserves has led to doubling of its price. This makes it a more volatile and less attractive alternative for electricity production compared to clean sources such as solar and wind. There is also an opportunity of meeting power generation and heating needs using efficiency measures and renewable energy sources rather than natural gas. As such, Ontario is left with an alternative of considering most efficient and environmental friendly energy sources, which include hydropower, solar, ground heat, biomass, and wind.

Agriculture Mitigation actions we can take are rethinking the way agriculture is practiced. Finding ways to reduce reliance on chemical and synthetic fertilizers. Creating incentives to promote the use of renewable energy through modern Ag systems. The concern of climate change and the need to shift to more sustainable system has raised to long standing practices, and conservation agriculture. Another form of mitigation is lowering rates of agriculture expansion. Reduction and more efficient use of nitrogenous

India is a country of geographic diversities with varied soil-types, habitats, climates and vegetations. India is a major producer of food (fruits, vegetables, wheat, pulse, milk, spices etc.) in the world after China. This industry is the front end of the agriculture sector, which is a significant economic component, employing nearly 60% of the country’s population and contributing to around 25% of India’s gross domestic product. With access to a large natural resource base of 161 million hectares of arable land, 15 million hectares of fresh water reservoirs, the largest livestock population in the globe and diverse agro-climatic conditions, India is a favourable destination for growth in the food industry. The Indian food industry is expected

Farmers over-irrigate and under irrigate their produce causing famines and severe soil erosion. As the nation and the world have sunk into a global water crisis, every drop counts. Day by day, the evaporation rate increases. Farmers can’t tell the maximum and minimum amounts of water in their land. That’s where our innovation comes into play.

Whether natural gas has lower life cycle greenhouse gas emissions than oil depends on the assumed leakage rate, the global warming potential of methane over different time frames, the energy conversion efficiency, and different factors

CO2 is the most significant greenhouse gas, which mainly comes from the use of fossil fuels. Many people feel that content of CO2 in the atmosphere is the main reason for manmade global warming. The main sources of CO2 emissions involve electricity generation, industrial processes, fumes from transportation and commercial buildings and use. Emissions of greenhouse gases, such as CO2, to the atmosphere are expected to cause even more of a significant change in global climate (Davison, 2007). The main focus to try to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is to reduce the amount that is released from coal-fired power plants. Greenhouse gas emissions that involve the productions of electricity come from natural gas production and coal-fired power plant operations. Natural gas production accounts for twenty-four percent and coal-fired power plant operations accounts for seventy-five percent, while the other one percent is caused by other electricity generation operations. The main reason why coal-fired power plants have a higher percentage of emissions is because the sulfur content of coal is much higher than that of other fossil fuels (Jarmaillo et al., 2007). This proves that there is a great need to find an alternative fossil fuel to use instead of coal. Although coal is easy to mine, transport and process for the electricity generation process, it is also the

As we all know the energy we use form fossil fuel is nonrenewable, and it damages our environment badly. The most energy is used in the industrials (31%), the second is used in transportation (28%), the third is used in residential (22%), and the last is used in commercial (19%). We also know that the more we use fossil fuel, the more greenhouse gas effect to our earth and killing our atmosphere by trap the gases and it make our earth getting warmer and warmer. In this paper will go deep more into the second big use energy which is transportation and how they are going to use the new energy to keep the environment cleaner. However, our world has created a lot of renewable energy such as energy from solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, and nuclear. In fact, the new Bioenergy, which uses household garbage, including food waste, for its fuel could be a great idea to save our natural energies, also less emission on the greenhouse effect, save money instead of wasting it.

Many under-developed countries are trapped in poverty because of the shortage of raw materials, being forced to resort to trade in order support themselves, as well as overexploitation of the limited resources they posses. Unable to implement eco-friendly technologies in the production processes and therefore force to use hazardous and cheap methods of production, which is contributed further degradation of the environment. For instance, many suffer from poverty live on soil that is not fertile; as a consequence, they are forced to resort to intensive farming. This practice is damaging to the environment and furthermore, these people do not have the financial means to improve the technologies they use in agriculture or basis infrastructure in this aspect. As a result, they can only produce low and insufficient quantities of food in

One such way is the introduction of new farming practices which “has allowed for a 4 percent reduction in poverty each year (since 2005)” (Rau, A. et al., 2016). This has allowed for a greater supply of food, therefore reducing the living costs of individuals in Ethiopia; as well as providing jobs on farms.

In contrast, water resources planners have often trivialized green water management in rain-fed agriculture (Liu, Zehnder, & Yang 2009). Green water management often comes in the form of effective use of rainfall (Liu, Zehnder, & Yang 2009). Green Water management has great conservation potential. For example, according to Liu, Zehnder, & Yang (209), strengthening rainfall management could possibly double or even quadruple maize yields in sub-Saharan Africa. Rainwater harvesting is a promising approach for green water management in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (Liu, Zehnder, & Yang 2009). Experiments with rainwater harvesting increased yield by a factor of 2 to 3 in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Niger, Sudan and Tanzania as compared to the current yield levels (Liu, Zehnder, & Yang 2009). Additional spending in many of the rain-fed areas allowed more poor people to rise above the poverty line than would be expected with investments in irrigation infrastructure (Liu, Zehnder, & Yang 2009). Green water management is not only limited to ‘‘infrastructure’’ and management technologies, as biotechnological advances can also be helpful (Liu, Zehnder, & Yang 2009). For example, a hybrid ‘‘New Rice for Africa,’’ which was developed to grow in the uplands of West Africa, produces more than 50% more grain than current varieties when cultivated in traditional