It is estimated thàt 1.5million acres of productive farmland are lost every year to urbanization.
This figure averages out to almost 2 acres every minute. There have been many attempts to preserve the land. Yet the policies chosen to protect farm lands are being revised to destroy them for urbanization.
Urbanization EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION ON AGRICULTURAL LANDS loss of agricultural lands and increases the degradation of fertile land.Rapid urbanization leads to massive growth of slump.
I agree with this because the people wants a place to live and not to cultivate or to grow plants. They don't realise that if we occupy the farming area will not be having food to eat.
ReplyDeleteThe top most priority in our basic needs is food..... people think that owning many plots, apartments and houses is the most necessary thing in everyone's life... one house is more than sufficient to accommodate four persons... i agree shelter is our another basic need... but food is the base which is essential... for an living thing to survive...
ReplyDeleteUrbanization is necessary... but not by destroying the agriculture, environment and cultivatable lands