Kaur, Sandeep, Bedi, Mandeep, Singh, Simran, Kour, Navdeep, Bhatti, Sandip Singh, Bhatia, Astha, Kumar, Manish, and Kumar, Ravinder (2024) Monoculture of crops: A challenge in attaining food security. In: Sharma, Ashita, Kumar, Manish, and Sharma, Puneet, (eds.) Advances in Food Security and Sustainability: Environmental Challenges in Attaining Food Security. Elsevier, London, UK, pp. 197-213.

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Abstract

The forests plantation are rapidly enhancing in the whole world so as to mitigate degradation and deforestation of forests, which are providing different services and goods to other living organisms. Since the most dominant plantation type is the monoculture practices and in research it was recorded. Monoculture farming is considered as the type of agriculture that mainly deals with growing only single form of a crop at a particular time on a specific field. Due to rapid enhancement in the growth of populations, there is a need to meet its demand for food, which is possible by the conversion of diverse agro ecosystems into single cropping sectors. The monoculture practices have been quite advantageous in comparison to the polyculture farming as it avoids mixing of different crops. The monoculture helps in increasing the productivity of single crops and also minimizes the use of diversity of fertilizers due to which it is a cost-effective technique. Moreover, the seeds and fertilizers of these crops are purchased in bulk that is how it is obtained at a low cost. Although, the implementation of monoculture practices have certain disadvantageous as it reduces biodiversity of crops, degradation of soil and its fertility, higher fertilizers use and also effect the natural activity of pollinators. The natural surrounding ecosystems will gets effected which directly have negative impact on the food chain. In the present chapter, we will highlight the importance of monoculture practices and its negative effects on the diversity of species and attaining food security challenges.

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