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It is impossible to practice gainful farming without careful management of plants, animals, and the environment.

Farmers are urged to take good care of animals or livestock if they are to get better products such as meat, eggs, milk, skins, hides, or even manure. They must also pay a lot of attention to the plants to get food, firewood, cotton, medicine, and mulching material.

Good management of both livestock and plants results in fertile soil as well as increased farmers’ incomes. Good care of the soil is considered part of environmental management because nearly all plants get their nourishment from the soil. Such practices are considered regenerative agriculture.

Regenerative agriculture is considered an evolution of conventional farming, careful use of water and other inputs, preventing land degradation, and avoiding deforestation. It protects and improves soil, biodiversity, climate resilience, and water resources while making farming more productive and profitable.

It is a process of restoring degraded soil by using such practices as adaptive grazing, no-till planting, no use or limited use of pesticides and synthetic fertiliser, based on ecological principles. Regenerative agriculture strives to work with nature rather than destroying it.

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