Why is the agriculture in deep crisis right now?

"The agronomist Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), a plant-breeding wizard hailed for innovations that led to the "Green Revolution," started it. Borlaug's quest for optimal plant varieties boosted output per acre and drastically reduced the number of people facing starvation. Eventually, however, it had unforeseen consequences, such as the displacement of diversified family farms by bigger operations growing a single crop with large doses of fertilizers and herbicides.

"The deification of efficiency cast aside traditional methods of letting soil rest and regenerate," Ms. Krumme writes. "Its focus on increasing yields divorced agriculture from farmers, and farmers from land and place." Rural communities eroded. Small processors died out. And the surviving farmers, while more prosperous most of the time, became more vulnerable to price swings because their incomes depended on the value of a single crop." [1]

Production and application of large doses of fertilizers ruin our environment. Time comes to take these doses away. Agriculture is in a deep crisis right now.

1. Efficient To a Fault. Levinson, Marc.  Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y.. 18 Sep 2023: A.17.