Agriculture is the most important production segment for our society. However, there are several challenges it has to tackle as soon as possible:
- growing population needs more food,
- bigger demand for animal production requires more feed,
- growing segment of biofuels also needs lands and crops,
- as well as green chemistry industry and biopolymers.
These problems cannot be solved by increasing area of agricultural land any more. 50 % of inhabitable land is already used for agriculture.1 Between 2010–2015 every year 5.5 million hectares of rain forests were plundered because of agriculture.2 Intensification of the agriculture brought high amounts of pesticidesPesticides are products and agents designed to eliminate plant and animal pests, to protect plants, to protect supplies and products, to protect premi… and fertilizers, which allow bigger yields, but further contaminate both food and the environment. The goal of sustainableAn attempt to provide the best outcomes for the human and natural environments both now and into the indefinite future. One famous definition of susta… More development is protecting all remaining natural environments, while facing the abovementioned challenges.