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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2012, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (08): 2031-2035.

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Using ecology thinking reconstructing traditional agronomy: Role of production ecology.

WANG Song-liang   

  1. (College of Crop Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China).
  • Online:2012-08-18 Published:2012-08-18

Abstract: Traditional agronomy, as a discipline or specialty, is originated from the reductionism thinking of neoteric experimental sciences and motivated by the great success of industrialized revolution, but loses the ensemble grasp of the relationships between agricultural organisms and their resources and  environment, i.e., agroecosystem mechanism. Moreover, due to the excessively relying on exogenous fossil energy input and the monoculture with a few highly productive crop cultivars, the  agricultural interior sustainability has unceasingly lost, making our mankind facing the double crises of grain security and food safety. Therefore, it is imperative to reconstruct the traditional agronomy and its educational system. In this paper, the author proposed to link traditional agronomy with ecology, establishing agroecology as the core subject and agroecosystem management as the core applied system, and in particular, establishing ‘production ecology’ to fill up the wide gap between the crop cultivation and farming system and the crop genetics and breeding, the two second grade disciplines under agronomy. Ideologically and methodologically, this proposal could provide disciplinary, scientific, and educational bases to authentically implement the strategy of sustainable development of agriculture.