Fifty years ago, the world's population was only about half of what it is today. Mankind once hoped to organize the imminent food crisis with the so-called green revolution. The rapid increase in the use of hybrid seeds and fertilizers has achieved some results, but mankind has also paid a heavy ecological cost. Statistics show that compared with the time our parents lived, the current global food production has nearly doubled, but the price is also huge; the consumption of surface water and groundwater by agricultural production has double.
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Solving problems cannot be done at the expense of the ecological environment