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Oil Palm Plantation in Malaysia is one of the best agricultural practice is the best!

Since 1971, Malaysia is the world biggest palm oil producer. And palm plantation help many malaysian get their jobs. In 1970s most malaysian live in rural area and most people are unemployed and they are live in poverty and most of them have short life-span. But after the increasing in oil palm plantation it provides a lot of employments like timberjack. Many malaysians are use palm fruit and its oil as main food resources .Palm fruit and oil contain an assortment of vitamins, antioxidants, and other phytonutrients important for good health so it give a longer life-span to them.

Oil Palm Plantation in Malaysia doesn't cause desertification even though there were many farming activity, as the farmers don't cut down a lot of trees. Soil fertility would not be affected by this practice as farmers uses chemical fertilizer to ensure a good harvest, mantaining the productivity of the soil.

Palm oil contains high levels of anti oxidants( nutrition )as well anti cancer and cholesterol lowering properties and it protects against breast and skin cancer. Palm oil is the richest natural source of tocotrienols, a super antioxidant. Tocotrienols lower cholesterol levels and protects the brain. Red palm oil is one of the richest natural sources of carotenoids(nutrition), the safest source of vitamin A. In all, palm oil is trans free, which is beneficial to human health.

Oil palm plantation is able to provide more jobs for people, thus, the country’s economy is stable and people have a source of income for their family and less people are poor so less people suffer from malnutrition.

Oil palm plantation is also able to give better food, therefore, people will be more healthy and grow to a ripe old age.

Oil palm plantation is good and healthy!

Udon Thani BY CECILIA’s group:

Nowdays, advanced technology is improving our lives but at the same time, it causes harm to our health. But the wet rice cultivation do not cause harm to the environments.

Examples are:

(1)Chemicals and harmful substances were not used to grow crops. Which means it will not pollutes the air.

(2)There were no heavy use of fertilisers and pesticides unlike other intensively cultivated rice fields.

(3)Wildlife will be able to adapt to the surroundings and will not become extinct as the people living there made little changes to the surroundings only.

(4) The food is clean and free of chemicals or other substances and does not harm our health.

(5)There will be no air pollution.

Why?

(1)Chemicals and harmful substances were not used to grow crops. Which means it will not pollutes the air.

If we breathe in too much of the polluted air caused by chemicals and harmful substances, the harmful substances get in our lungs and causes disease in later part of our life. It will also result in air pollution (why? ~produced by the chemicals and harmful substances) and global warming (why? ~air pollution will soon lead to global warming).

(2) There were no heavy use of fertilisers and pesticides unlike other intensively cultivated rice fields.

There were no signs of modernisation and irrigation except for some wells and ponds. This means everything there is grown naturally. It will not cause air or water pollution (no advanced machines or harmful chemicals thus there will not be any pollution) or extinction of native fauna and flora (since there is no destruction on their habitats).

(3)Wildlife will be able to adapt to the surroundings and will not become extinct as the people living there made little changes to the surroundings only.

The people living there adapt to the physical environment and made little changes to it. There were no signs of modernisation and irrigation except for some wells and ponds. This shows that people in Udon Thani live a simple life and do not really cause much destruction to the environment.

(4) The food is clean and free of chemicals or other substances and does not harm our health.

The crops they plant were controlled by the natural weather, they have fertile and flat soil to allow large plantation to be carried out and the crops have the natural vitamins and nutrients which is clean and does not harm our health. The crops do not consist of chemicals and harmful substances.

(5)There will be no air pollution.

There will be no air pollution as the farmers did not use machines such as seeders, harvester nor tractor to farm and the water is clean.

Conclusion: Wet rice cultivation will definitely be the best agricultural practice for the environment as it benefits the health of humans. It will not cause environmental degradation but it definitely will not cause world hunger provided if everyone practises wet rice cultivation. I am sure that the crops grown by wet rice cultivation will have a lot of nutrition.

Best for environments: Does not cause pollution or major destruction.

Public Health: Nutritional, healthy and free of chemicals.

Done by: Mun Yu, Melia, Hazel, Xue Ting, Cai Ying, Jolynn, Carissa, Ernest and Dylan

Agro-Techonology Group

Singapore is a small country unlike other countries like China and India. Therefore, Singapore uses agro-technology farming which could increase output per unit of land. This is to say that it could produce a large amount of crops in a small land. This is due to the high level of technology used. For example, chemical fertilizers are used to ensure a good harvest and the irrigation system prevents the crops from withering when there is insufficient rainfall. This ensures the increase of the productivity. And as Singapore is a small and developed country, finding labor which is willing to work there could be a problem. Thus, agro-technology has yet another benefit, it uses machines, which not only solve the problem of the shortage workers, but also raises the efficiency of the various farming process. Computers are also used to calculate the amount of nutrients that is needed for livestock and poultry to grow quickly and healthily. This results in the increase of production quality meat milk…etc. Vaccines also prevent farm animals from catching diseases which might affect our health.

In short, agro- technology farming allows us to maximize the profit and minimize the cost. Agro-technology farming ensures that the soil is fertile so that the crops could grow healthily. It does not involve deforestation and does not contribute much to global warming. In addition, this kind of agriculture could increase the total number of crops produced and at the same ensuring that the crops is more nutritional. It is impossible to get diseases from the farm animals that were sold farms as they were vaccinated to make sure that they are safe to consume. Many requirements such as water, sunlight and etc. could be controlled in this agriculture so as to allow the plant to grow better.

Thus, this kind of farming promises products which is healthier and produces crops and animals which is safe to consume. It is considered environmental friendly and ensures that highest profit could be made with the lowest possible cost. This kind of farming can actually attract tourism which is yet another benefit. Therefore, agro-technology farming is the best way among all the farming method.

--Soon Heng's group

WAHSEH

World Agriculture Headquarter

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Agriculture Assignment Groups

The Kantu Tribe
Lye Weng
Jasmine
Jazz
Patricia
Yujia
Reynoso
CHRISTIAN
Merwyn
Xing Er
Gladys

Udon Thani
CECILIA
Mun Yu
Hazel
Xue Ting
Cai Ying
Jolyn
Ernest
Dylan
Carissa
Melia

Oil Palm Plantation in Malaysia
Vanessa
Sheryl
TAN YING
Charmaine
Belicia
Lena
Theresa
Suman
Wee Teck
Yifan

Agro-Technology Farming in Singapore
Janice
Elicia
Nian Yao
Ming Hoon
Shirnise
Xiao Ling
Zhang Quan
SOON HENG
Sidhant

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