DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-820-7-0071

ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE AS A FORM OF SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ON SOIL

Roman RÉCKY, Jarmila HORVÁTHOVÁ

Agriculture is a process which should provide a sufficient quantity and quality of foodstuffs for the domestic or foreign market. During its development it has undergone many changes which originated predominantly from the scientific-technical progress in the society and climatic changes. Apart from the foodstuff production, the agriculture executes also the ecological, landscape and social function. Agriculturalists have a significant impact on the environment in which they operate. This impact can be both positive and negative. The negative effect on the natural environment is caused by the excessive utilization of pesticides and commercial fertilizers, production of greenhouse gases, or the excessive irrigation and other interferences into the environment. The ecological agriculture constitutes the alternative to the conventional farming on soil. It represents one of the forms of the sustainable entrepreneurship in agriculture. Apart from the production of fresh and healthy foodstuffs, the ecological agriculture strives to eliminate the negative impacts of agriculture on the environment. The priority is not the quanity, but quality. The ecological function is superior over the economic one. In our paper we analyse the selected aspects of the ecological agriculture in the Slovak Republic.

Klíčová slova: agricultural soil, ecological agriculture, mineral fertilizers, pesticides, sustainable agriculture

stránky: 71-82, Publikováno: 2021, online: 2021